Crew Dragon with Russian woman Anna Kikina undocked from the ISS

The Crew Dragon manned spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina has undocked from the ISS. The mission participants will return to Earth after five months of work at the station, according to NASA on Twitter, where the undocking was broadcast.

By data “Roskosmos”, the ship undocked from the Harmony module of the American segment on Saturday at 10:20 Moscow time. On board Crew Dragon is the crew of the Crew-5 mission, which includes Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, astronauts Nicole Mann, Josh Kassada and Koichi Wakata. Cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin and Andrei Fedyaev, as well as astronauts Francisco Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg and Sultan al-Neyadi continued their work at the station, the state corporation said.

It is noted that the splashdown of the ship should take place on March 12 in the Gulf of Mexico near the city of Tampa in Florida.

In July 2022, Roscosmos and NASA signed an agreement on joint cross-flights to the ISS, according to which the countries will carry out two missions. In the autumn of the same year, the flights of NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio on Soyuz MS-22 and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina on Crew Dragon started. While on the ISS, the crew will conduct more than 200 science experiments and technology demonstrations in areas such as human health and lunar fuel systems, according to information on the SpaceX website for the Crew-5 mission.