SpaceX's Crew-10 mission successful: Four astronauts return after spending five months on International Space Station

WASHINGTON: The SpaceX Crew-10 mission has successfully returned to Earth after completing its five-month space mission. The Crew Dragon capsule used for the mission landed in the Pacific Ocean near California at 9.03 pm Indian time yesterday with four astronauts.

The spacecraft was launched on March 14 from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon rocket. NASA's Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan's Takuya Onishi, and Russia's Kirill Peskov were on board. This was the tenth mission to the space station by SpaceX as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

The Crew-10 mission was also part of the return of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to Earth.