Four astronauts travel back to Earth aboard the American "Dragon" spacecraft.
CCTV reporters learned on August 9th local time that four astronauts, after staying at the International Space Station for nearly five months, returned to Earth on the same day aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft near the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean. The four astronauts are American astronauts Anne McClain, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, and Russian astronaut Oleg Artemyev. Previously, NASA announced that on August 8th Eastern Time, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying the four astronauts detached from the International Space Station and began its journey back to Earth, taking approximately 17.5 hours.
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