NASA test pilots Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley plunged the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule into the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, completing the first manned orbit and return in a commercially built and operated spacecraft and first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years.
The two NASA astronauts spent two months at the International Space Station, starting with their May 31 arrival aboard the Crew Dragon capsule. It took them a day to reach the ISS after SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket made the first American crewed launch in nearly a decade.
