The "Crew-2" was in space for almost 200 days, now the two Americans, one Japanese and one French are back on earth.
However, they all had to wear a diaper on their return flight.
Cape Canaveral - The four astronauts were in
space for
around 200 days, and early Tuesday morning the French Esa astronaut
Thomas Pesquet, the NASA spacemen Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur and the Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide landed in the sea off Florida.
As the US space agency Nasa had announced, the crew had to work with unusual circumstances on their return flight, they all had to wear a diaper.
Crew had to wear diapers on the return flight: Four ISS astronauts landed on earth
The problem on the return flight: the toilet on board the "Crew Dragon" of the space company SpaceX owned by Elon Musk was broken. Therefore, the four astronauts who had been on the ISS since April had to wear a kind of diaper when they returned. At a press conference, astronaut McArthur described the situation as "suboptimal". “But there are a lot of small challenges in space travel and we are ready to get a grip on that,” McArthur said beforehand.
Originally, the undocking of "Crew-2" was planned for Sunday, but was postponed to Monday at short notice due to bad weather conditions.
After a successful landing of the "Crew-2", the German astronaut Matthias Maurer with his "Crew-3" could leave for the ISS on Thursday morning (CET) at the earliest.
The start of the Saarlander had already been postponed several times.
Among other things because of bad weather and a "minor medical problem" of a crew member.
With Maurer, a German astronaut will fly into space for the first time in three years.