Astronauts return to Earth after spending 6 months in space
Four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule returned to Earth early Sunday, splashing down off Panama City early Sunday, a NASA Livestream showed.
Boats were retrieving the spacecraft and crew after their six-month mission aboard the International space platform .
The crew reported they were feeling well, NASA said.
The capsule splashed down at 2:56 am (0656 GMT) within the dark within the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast after a six-and-a-half-hour flight from the ISS, images relayed by NASA's WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft showed.
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Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japan´s Soichi Noguchi visited space last November because the crew on the primary fully operational mission to the ISS aboard a vehicle made by Elon Musk's SpaceX, which has become NASA's favored commercial transportation partner.
Seven astronauts remained on the ISS including a replacement crew of 4 who arrived on a special SpaceX craft last week.
"Thanks for your hospitality," Hopkins said earlier because the capsule undocked from the space platform for its return journey. "We'll see you back on Earth."
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Prior to that, two American astronauts made a test mission to the ISS in May and stayed for 2 months.
That was the primary launch to the ISS from US soil since the top of the spacecraft program in 2011. it had been also the primary crewed mission travel by a personal company, as against NASA.
Until then US astronauts had caught rides to the ISS aboard Russian spacecraft.
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