Hurricane Milton Strands Astronauts In Space

The astronauts that were above the Earth during Hurricane Milton are Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps. Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin was also a part of the team that departed aboard SpaceX Dragon craft and docked to the International Space Station on March 5, 2024.

The members of the Crew-8 team joined the space station’s Expedition 70 crew that were already in orbit.

NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Furukawa Satoshi, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Konstantin Borisov, Oleg Kononenko, and Nikolai Chub welcomed the team it linked up to the orbiting craft and opened the hatches at 4:13 a.m.