The Swedish-Norwegian astronaut Marcus Wandt (43) will return to earth today – news Innlandet – Local news, TV and radio

Wandt has been one of several astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). According to the plan, he and three others were to return already on Saturday, but this was canceled as a result of bad weather along the coast of Florida. – Extra time in orbit means bonus research, Wandt wrote on his Instagram profile on Saturday. Just after 2:30 p.m. this afternoon, the capsule with him and three others landed in the ocean off Florida. Long space journey Wandt and the rest of the crew were launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the evening (Norwegian time) on Thursday 18 January. It happened in the SpaceX rocket Falcon 9. After a 37-hour journey, they arrived at the International Space Station on 20 January. The 43-year-old has been on a mission with the company Axiom Space, and is the first astronaut from the European Space Agency on a commercial mission. On the International Space Station, he has, among other things, had tasks related to research. Facts about the launch “Axiom Mission 3”: Is the first pan-European astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The mission is carried out by Axiom Space and is supported by, among others, ESA, the Swedish space agency SNSA and the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab. Axiom is a commercial company that specializes in facilitating space travel. SpaceX provides the transport itself, while Axiom organizes the journey and mission on the space station. The launch takes place with a Crew Dragon spacecraft and a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX. ESA is doing this to show that short missions in space with a quick training time will be useful both for research, education and inspiration. Marcus Wandt was launched with three other astronauts. Walter Villadei, pilot on the mission and colonel in the Italian Air Force. Turkish Alper Gezeravci is on board as a mission specialist, and the commander is Michael López-Alegría, former astronaut at NASA. Source: Norwegian Space Center/news Mamma follows from Gjøvik According to the plan, the crew will land in Florida on Friday at 2.30 pm. Marcus Wandt is half Norwegian and has Norwegian citizenship. He has previously told about his upbringing in Karlstad, Sweden. But he was at Toten a lot with his family and Norwegian friends. His Norwegian mother Anne-Torin Wandt Lyne was present in Florida and followed her son’s launch. – It is very exciting, and I hope it will be a really nice experience, she said then. However, she follows today’s landing at home at the Science Center in Gjøvik, where she lives. And when the capsule landed in the sea, she became slightly nervous. – Yes, I wondered a little when I only saw two parachutes, but then something happened and then there were four, and then it felt good, she smiles. Photo: Axiom Space. Marcus Wandt greets from the room



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