Sent into space by a SpaceX rocket on behalf of NASA, the crew of the Crew-5 mission has been back on Earth since Saturday. He spent a total of five months on the International Space Station (ISS).

The Endurance capsule landed in the Gulf of Mexico shortly after 21 p.m. (03 a.m. on Sunday in Paris) off the west coast of Florida, with Japan's Koichi Wakata, Russia's Anna Kikina, and NASA's Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada on board.

Nicole Mann, first Native American in space

Crew-5, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, last October, was Koichi Wakata's fifth space mission and the first of the other members. Above all, it allowed Nicole Mann to become the first Native American sent into space.

Before leaving the ISS, the crew met the crew of Crew-6, which left the same place on March 1 to take over. Less than a week earlier, a Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off from Kazakhstan to replace the MS-22 spacecraft, also Russian, which was damaged during docking with the ISS. The three members of MS-22, an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, were originally scheduled to return to Earth at the end of March after a six-month mission, but will eventually stay for almost a year.

Cooperation on the International Space Station has become one of the last areas where Washington and Moscow continue to work together since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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