The crew of the Crew 3 mission splashed down in the ocean on Friday, May 6 after returning from the International Space Station. The splashdown took place at 12:43 a.m. The crew's mission to space came to an end when they were in the Gulf of Mexico.
The crew members were taken to the Johnson Space Center in Houston and then onto the recovery vessels.
NASA's partnership with SpaceX has enabled us to deliver a crew safely to the space station and back, which will allow us to travel farther out into the universe than ever before. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement that this mission is one more example that we are in the golden era of commercial spaceflight.
The astronauts left the International Space Station at 1:05 a.m. on May 5. You can see the footage in the video.
The four arrived at the space station on November 11, 2021. According to NASA, the crew traveled over 75 million miles and completed 2,832 laps around Earth.
The crew completed three spacewalks during their stay to upgrade the space station's power system. They conducted scientific research on growing plants in space without soil, how astronauts' eyes change during space missions, and whether fiber optics can be manufactured in microgravity.
Three Russian cosmonauts, three NASA astronauts, and one European Space Agency astronaut are still on the space station.
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