Native American Nicole Aunapu Mann became the first Indigenous woman to travel in space. The craft he piloted along with three other astronauts landed this Saturday.
The 45-year-old local astronaut is an aviation veteran who served in the US Navy in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The team of four cosmonauts also included the first person of Russian nationality to have been in space since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Four astronauts who spent five months on the International Space Station (ISS) returned to Earth on Saturday aboard the SpaceX Endurance spacecraft, NASA said.
“The Endurance crashed at 21:02 (2:02 this Sunday in Lisbon) in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, near Tampa, off the coast of Florida” (southeast), the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said . ).
The SpaceX spacecraft left the ISS at 2:20 a.m. (7:20 a.m. Saturday in Lisbon), after NASA delayed its return Wednesday and Thursday due to adverse weather conditions.