4 astronauts from the International Space Station returned to Earth vickye

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4 astronauts from the International Space Station returned to Earth, in a "SpaceX" vehicle.

The capsule salvage boats took over the returning judiciary astronauts who had spent more than 160 days in space.

The express flight took only 6 and a half hours.

The astronauts, 3 Americans and a Japanese, returned in the same capsule that was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center last November.

Their mission, which lasted 167 days, is the longest for astronauts to launch from the United States. The previous record of 84 days was set by the last NASA Sky Lab crew in 1974.

And the separation that occurred on Saturday evening left 7 people on the space station, 4 of them arrived a week ago via a "SpaceX" vehicle.

The "Dragon" capsule landed by parachute in the Gulf of Mexico, ending the second space flight of the Elon Musk company.

The digital currency "Ethereum", the second largest cryptocurrency in the world after Bitcoin, jumped Tuesday to a record high of $ 2,683.65 on the Bitcoin exchange.

Ethereum trimmed its gains to 7.39 percent at $ 2,640.18 by 19:00 GMT, while Bitcoin rose 3.18 percent to $ 54,968, but it remains down more than 15 percent from its record level of $ 64,895, which it recorded in the fourth. Ten of April.

On Monday, cryptocurrencies received a boost from reports that JPMorgan Chase plans to offer a Bitcoin fund, the latest indication that it is seen by many as a speculative investment gaining institutional legitimacy.