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SpaceX Dragon crew successfully returns to Earth

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SpaceX Astronauts Return
NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, right are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, Sunday, May 2, 2021. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission was the first crew rotation flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

Four astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon have returned to earth.
They landed in the ocean side of Florida.

They became healthy after a six -month stay on the International Space Station.

It took more than six hours for the capsule to travel from the International Space Station and land in the Gulf of Mexico in Panama City.

The Go Navigator recovery ship led the retrieval of the capsule and it took half an hour before the said astronauts were captured.

It was the first night of the NASA space craft landing from the Apollo 8 crew that arrived in the Pacific Ocean on December 27, 1968.

First to appear in the capsule was commander Michael Hopkins followed by Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi of Japan.

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