The coolest new space pictures: March 2024
Seven up, four down. This past month saw a flurry of personnel rotations at the International Space Station, with the arrival of two crew vehicles and the departure of one.
The bustle began on March 3, when the four-person Crew-8 mission launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon from Kennedy Space Center, Florida:
This temporarily brought the number of people aboard the station up to 11:
On March 12, a SpaceX Dragon carrying the Crew-7 mission members came home, riding a trail of flame en route to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico:
Finally, on March 23, a three-person crew launched to the ISS aboard a Russian Soyuz vehicle:
Here are some other pictures that got our attention this month: