San Diego, United States of America. 09 August, 2025. JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi is helped out from the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft after the hatch is opened on to the deck of the recovery ship SHANNON after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, August 9, 2025 off the coast of San Diego, California. Expedition 73 crew including; NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, returned after nearly 7-months in space aboard the International Space Station. Credit: Keegan Barber/NASA/Alamy Live News

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