COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – After nearly five months orbiting Earth on the International Space Station (ISS), Woodland Park’s own Nichole Ayers is back home – or at least back on solid ground.
Ayers, a graduate of Woodland Park High School and the U.S. Air Force Academy, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California on the morning of Saturday, Aug. 9 – marking the successful completion of NASA’s 10th commercial crew rotation mission to the ISS.
Ayers is a member of the SpaceX Crew-10, joined by fellow NASA astronaut Anne McClain, a Russian cosmonaut and a member of Japan’s space program. The team of four launched from Kennedy Space Center on March 14, landing on the ISS about 29 hours later…