MARCIA DUNN 佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角 — 四名宇航员于周四从国际空间站返回地球，八个月前他们匆忙前往空间站，接替一名生病同事及其机组人员。
MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to replace an ailing colleague and his crew.
SpaceX 将这批美国、法国和俄罗斯宇航员带回，在洛杉矶海岸外的太平洋溅落着陆。
SpaceX brought the U.S., French and Russian flyers back with a splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of Los Angeles.
NASA 的杰西卡·梅尔和杰克·哈萨韦、法国的索菲·阿德诺和俄罗斯的安德烈·费季耶夫于周三离开轨道实验室，渴望在长期分离后与家人团聚。由于飞船维修，他们的替补人员晚到三周，导致这批机组人员的返程被推迟。
NASA’s Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, France’s Sophie Adenot and Russia’s Andrey Fedyaev departed the orbiting lab on Wednesday, eager to reunite with their families after a lengthy separation. Their replacements arrived three weeks late because of capsule repairs, stalling this crew’s homecoming.
他们迫不及待想感受脸上的微风、冲个热水澡，阿德诺至少还想重返水上运动。
They couldn’t wait to feel the breeze on their faces, hit the shower and, for Adenot at least, plunge back into water sports.
“我们所有人都有很多复杂、交织的情绪，”梅尔在仍身处轨道时表示，并指出他们会想念“这些地球家园的非凡景色”。梅尔和她的机组人员于二月离开地球，接替四名空间站驻留人员，后者因其中一人 — NASA 的迈克·芬克（现已退休） — 生病而被提前送回。这是 NASA 65 年载人航天史上首次医疗撤离。
“It’s a lot of mixed, swirling emotions for all of us,” Meir said while still in orbit, noting they would miss “these extraordinary views of our home planet.”Meir and her crew left the planet in February to replace four station occupants who were sent home early after one of them — NASA’s Mike Fincke, now retired — fell ill. It was NASA’s first medical evacuation in 65 years of human spaceflight.
两个月后，这批新的四人组自豪地观看了“阿耳忒弥斯二号”宇航员绕月飞行。他们还在太空庆祝了美国建国 250 周年，梅尔带着短笛与波士顿流行乐团合作，举办了一场独立日音乐会。
The new foursome watched with pride two months later as the Artemis II astronauts flew around the moon. They also celebrated the United States’ 250th birthday up there, with Meir joining the Boston Pops with her piccolo for a Fourth of July concert.
梅尔参与了四次太空行走，阿德诺则三次出舱，对这座 28 年历史的前哨站进行维护和升级。
Meir took part in four spacewalks, while Adenot ventured outside three times for maintenance and upgrades to the 28-year-old outpost.
在繁忙工作间隙，宇航员们也找到了乐子，上个月举办了一场舞会，并定期进行烹饪演示，配备围裙和厨师高帽。
In the middle of all the work, the astronauts found time for fun, throwing a dance party last month and holding regular cooking demonstrations complete with aprons and a chef’s toque.
梅尔为和她一样拥有卷发的女性宇航员制作了一段教学视频，而哈撒韦则将他那浓密的八字胡——在太空中极为罕见——修剪得一丝不苟。他在进入轨道前就留出了这种海军飞行员风格的八字胡，以此向自己的海军背景致敬，并且他发现，在失重环境下打理它并不比在地球上更难。一些地面控制中心的工作人员也为了表示支持而留起了八字胡。现在他的任务结束了，他的八字胡会消失吗？
Meir presented a how-to video for curly-haired spacewomen like herself, while Hathaway kept his bushy mustache — a space rarity — groomed to perfection. He grew the naval aviator-style mustache before rocketing into orbit as a way to honor his Navy ties, and found it no harder to maintain in weightlessness than on Earth. Some ground controllers grew mustaches in solidarity. Will his mustache disappear now that his mission is over?
哈撒韦在八月份表示：“某种程度上，它已经成了我在太空中的一个小标志，所以我不确定它会不会马上消失，还是我会保留一段时间。”目前仍有七名宇航员在空间站驻留，分别来自美国、俄罗斯和加拿大。根据美国国家航空航天局（NASA）的统计，自2000年空间站启用以来，已有来自26个国家的298名访客到访过这里。
“It’s kind of become a little bit of my brand up here,” Hathaway said in August, “so I don’t know if it’ll go away right away or I’ll end up keeping it for a while.”Seven astronauts remain aboard the space station, representing the U.S., Russia and Canada. The outpost has welcomed 298 visitors from 26 countries since the doors swung open in 2000, by NASA’s count.