Crew Dragon nears splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. [credit: Bill Inglalls/NASA ] They made it. On Sunday afternoon a slightly charred spacecraft dropped out of the blue sky, and splashed down into a placid Gulf of Mexico. The safe return of NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken from orbit capped a nearly 64-day mission that proved the viability of a new spacecraft built by SpaceX, Crew Dragon.

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