NASA astronauts safely splashdown on Earth, ending 200-day flight.
Four astronauts from the NASA Crew-2 mission are scheduled to undock from the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and head back to Earth after about half a year in space.
Four astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station in April for a long-duration science mission began their return voyage to Earth on Monday as their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule separated from the orbiting laboratory for a flight home.
The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just before 3 a.m., ending the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk’s company.
It was an express trip home, lasting just 6 1/2 hours.
The astronauts, three American and one Japanese, flew back in the same capsule named Resilience in which they launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in November.
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