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By Samah Labib Friday, September 01, 2023 02:00 AM The four SpaceX astronauts for Crew-6 leave the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday after four months of living and working in the orbiting laboratory. Bringing home aboard the Crew Dragon capsule will be NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Vediaev. The mission was the fourth spaceflight for Bowen, who participated in the space shuttle missions STS-126 in 2008, STS-132 in 2010, and STS-133 in 2011, and the first for Hoburgh, Neyadi and Vidyaev. The crew aboard the International Space Station is down to 11. That’s a lot of people for a facility that NASA says is the size of a six-bedroom house, although in the past it has hosted up to 13 people. The usual number of crew on the International Space Station is about six. or seven. Crew-6 members are currently finalizing delivery activities, which include completing a number of science experiments and transporting cargo back to the departing Crew Dragon, which has docked with the International Space Station since the arrival of the astronauts in March. The six months Al Neyadi spent aboard the International Space Station was the longest spaceflight by an Arab so far, and he also became the first Arab to walk in space. Dhakan, an Emirati, posted regularly on X, which was called Twitter when he left Earth six months ago, making He keeps his followers on Earth updated about his life in orbit.
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