The Dragon crew capsule's first mission went well.
The Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station ended with a splash down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.
The entire mission went smoothly, as did Freedom's return to Earth.
There are amazing photos of the Crew 4 mission.
"From my perspective, watching the vehicle data those five and a half months was delightfully boring, while the crew got to do all the exciting work onboard the International Space Station," said Sarah Walker, the director of Dragon mission management.
It's exactly how we like it. On the day of its return, the Freedom vehicle performed well.
NASA and the European Space Agency sent their astronauts to the space lab after Crew-4 lifted off on April 27.
The crew of Freedom got to work immediately after arriving at the International Space Station. The Crew-4 astronauts completed over 250 investigations in areas of human research technology demonstrations that we'll need for exploration, as well as completing some of our low Earth orbit commercialization activities.
The spaceflyers' journey back to Earth Friday was notable not only for its smoothness, but also for the fact that they splashed down less than five hours after leaving the International Space Station.
This was the fastest return we've ever done on a crew mission.
The four-person Crew-5 arrived on the Dragon Endurance, which also flew the company's Crew 3 mission.
A veteran Dragon capsule will be used by Crew 6. Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, said during Friday's news conference that the upcoming mission will fly on the space shuttle.
The first private crewed mission to the space station took place in April of this year.
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