Three members of the International Space Station-Kate Rubins, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, on Saturday returned safely to Earth on a Russian Soyuz craft.
According to an official press release by NASA, the crew departed the station in their Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft at 9:34 p.m. EDT on Friday, 16th April and landed safely under parachutes at 12:55 a.m. on Saturday, 17th April 17.
The three had been at the space station since mid-October 2020 and it was the second spaceflight for Rubins and Ryzhikov and the first for Kud-Sverchkov.
Their mission was the last scheduled Russian flight carrying a U.S. crew member, marking an end to a long dependency as the U.S. revives its own crew launch capability.
According to a report by NASA, astronaut Kate Rubins is the first person to sequence DNA in space. She holds a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from the University of California, San Diego.
She also holds a doctorate in cancer biology from Stanford University’s Medical School Biochemistry Department and Microbiology and Immunology Department, Palo Alto, California.
The NASA astronaut has been to space before in 2016. As per the report, 241 people from 19 countries have visited the unique microgravity destination that has hosted more than 3,000 research and educational investigations from researchers in 108 countries and areas.
Rubins will be discussing her experience in a news conference from NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Wednesday, April 21 which will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
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