Watch SpaceX crew’s nighttime splashdown to Earth after historic ISS mission

Watch SpaceX crew’s nighttime splashdown to Earth after historic ISS mission

SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first US crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.

The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just before 3am local time,, ending the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk’s company. It was an express trip home, lasting just 6 1/2 hours.

The astronauts, three American and one Japanese, flew back in the same capsule – named Dragon Resilience – in which they launched from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in November.