.NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 mission successfully splashed down at 3:29 a.m. EDT Friday, off Pensacola, Fla, ending an almost eight-month science objective and also the agency's 8th business workers rotation objective to the International Space Station.After releasing March 3 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Facility in Fla, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and also Jeanette Epps, and also Roscosmos astronaut Alexander Grebenkin, spent 232 days aboard the space station.Healing staffs coming from NASA as well as SpaceX quickly safeguarded the space capsule and assisted the rocketeers during the course of leave. The staff now will certainly move to NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston, while the Dragon space capsule will definitely go back to SpaceX amenities at Cape Canaveral Area Force Station in Florida for examination and also renovation for future purposes.In the course of their mission, crew members journeyed almost 100 thousand kilometers as well as accomplished 3,760 tracks around Earth. They performed brand-new medical study to advance human expedition beyond low Planet track and perk individual life in the world. Investigation and also innovation demonstrations featured performing stalk tissue research study to establish organoid versions for analyzing degenerative ailments, discovering exactly how energy temperature has an effect on material flammability, and examining how spaceflight impacts immune feature in astronauts. Their job aims to enhance rocketeer health and wellness in the course of long-duration spaceflights, bring about vital improvements in space medication and benefitting mankind.Crew-8's profit adheres to the arrival of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 to the orbiting lab Sept. 29. These goals belong to NASA's Industrial Staff System, which supplies trusted accessibility to space, making best use of the use of the station for research and development and assisting future goals beyond low Earth orbit through partnering with private firms to transport astronauts to and also from the space station..Learn more about NASA's Office Staff course at:.https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew.- side-.Josh Finch/ Jimi RussellHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov/ james.j.russell@nasa.gov.Leah Cheshier/ Sandra JonesJohnson Area Facility, Houston281-483-5111 leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov / sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov.Steve Siceloff/ Stephanie PlucinskyKennedy Space Facility, Florida321-867-2468steven.p.siceloff@nasa.gov/ stephanie.n.plucinsky@nasa.gov.