N° 11–2024: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen returns from his second space mission
12 March 2024
Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen returned to Earth as part of Crew-7, marking the end of his Huginn mission and his second stay on the International Space Station.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked autonomously from the Space Station on 11 March 2024 at 16:20 CET. After completing a series of deorbit burns, the spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere and deployed its parachutes for a splashdown off the coast of Florida on 12 March at 10:47 CET.
Crew-7, comprising Andreas, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, was launched to the Station on 26 August 2023 and spent more than six months living and working in orbit as members of Expedition 69 and 70.
Andreas was the pilot of the Dragon vehicle, ensuring the spacecraft’s performance and systems as they made their way to the Space Station. This was the first time a European astronaut served as pilot on a Dragon spacecraft.
Earlier this year Andreas also welcomed fellow ESA astronaut Marcus Wandt on board the Station for his Muninn mission.
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