The astronauts spent more than five months in space, the longest-ever duration for a crew launched in an American-built spacecraft.
After undocking from the space station at 8:35 p.m. EDT on Saturday, the astronauts traveled through the atmosphere and touched down in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Florida, via parachutes at about 2:57 a.m. EDT on Sunday.
The landing was the first crewed and U.S.-made spacecraft splashdown amid darkness since 1968, and the second time a space capsule has ever landed in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s also only the second time NASA and SpaceX have brought astronauts back to Earth on a Crew Dragon spacecraft.