Their return marked the end of the first crew rotation mission to the station by the Crew Dragon spacecraft, developed in partnership between NASA and Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX, the agency said in a statement.
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The first six-month rotation of an International Space Station crew to be carried up and returned to Earth by commercial partner SpaceX is set to end in the early morning hours Sunday,
SpaceX Crew Dragon splashes down off Florida
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The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four Crew-1 astronauts parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida early Sunday, completing a six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The spacecraft, named Resilience, splashed down at 2:56 a.m. Eastern Time (0656 GMT) Sunday.
The Crew-1 mission, which consists of NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, undocked from the ISS at 8:35 p.m. Eastern Time Saturday (0035 GMT Sunday) to start the journey home.
(Photo : Flickr/Thomas Pesquet) SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts
On May 2, four astronauts plunged to a pre-dawn splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico after their trip to the International Space Station, or ISS, while aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.
SpaceX Crew Dragon Back to Earth
Michael Hopkins, the Crew-1 commander, along with NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, disconnected from the space-facing port of the station s forward Harmony module at 8:35 p.m. EDT on May 1.
According to Space.com., this landing is recorded as the third nighttime landing in the history of NASA.
However, the Crew Dragon executed a textbook return to Earth, dropping out of orbit, deploying four massive parachutes, and settling to a gentle splashdown south of Panama City, Florida, at 2:56 a.m., finishing a mission spanning 2,688 orbits over 168 days since its launch in November 2020.