Image: HANDOUT (APA/AFP/NASA TV/HANDOUT)
Image: Chandan Khanna (APA/AFP/Chandan Khanna)
On board a “Crew Dragon” capsule, the four astronauts undocked from the ISS on Wednesday, as live images from the US space agency Nasa showed. The capsule is scheduled to land in the sea off the coast of the US state of Florida on Friday. The Spanish-born former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, the Italian Walter Villadei, the Swede Marcus Wandt and the Turk Alper Gezeravci launched from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in January.
Image: Chandan Khanna (APA/AFP/Chandan Khanna)
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Gezeravci was the first Turkish citizen to fly into space. They carried out numerous experiments on board the ISS. The European Space Agency Esa said that Wandt is the first representative of a new generation of European astronauts to take part in commercially operated manned space flights with Axiom Space.
The trip was organized by the private space company Axiom Space in collaboration with NASA and SpaceX, the company owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk. According to media reports, the flight costs around 50 million euros per passenger.
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