Video: "Crew Dragon" Returns to Earth

The "Crew 5 Dragon" spacecraft from SpaceX successfully landed on Sunday off the coast of Florida. The capsule carried four astronauts after a five-month scientific mission at the International Space Station. Splashdown! #Crew5 is back on Earth, completing a science mission of nearly six months on the @Space_Station. Their @SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft touched down at 9:02 PM ET (0202 UTC March 12) near Tampa off the coast of Florida. The mission was launched into space on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 5, 2022, and docked with the International Space Station the following day. The mission included astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada from NASA, Koichi Wakata from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Anna Kikina from the Russian space agency Roscosmos. The astronauts spent the past months conducting experiments and research, as well as maintaining the laboratory at the International Space Station, as reported by CNN.