With three NASA astronauts, and one from the ESA.
Marshburn was in command of the ISS's Expedition 67 mission, until he handed control of the station to the Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, on Wednesday, May 4. Then the Crew-3 astronauts moved back into the Crew Dragon after midnight, early on Thursday morning. They'll spend all of Thursday cruising in orbit while the spacecraft performs precise maneuvers to place it into an optimal re-entry vector.
This is SpaceX's third operational mission to the station in its partnership program with NASA, but such partnerships are only beginning., which arrived at the station on April 27. This mission is also composed of three NASA astronauts and one from the ESA — Robert Hines, Jessica Watkins, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti, respectively.And there's much more going on with the ISS.
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