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HISTORICAL FACTS: Space station crew splash down in gulf of mexico - Caught on Camera

Crew-7 (From L) Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, ESA's Andreas Mogensen, NASA's Jasmin Moghbeli, and JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (Credit: AFP)

Four astronauts splashed down off Florida in the Gulf of Mexico on their return to Earth early Tuesday, following a more than six-month mission on the International Space Station.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft landed in the waters off Pensacola at 5:47 am (0947 GMT), with a NASA thermal camera showing all four of its drogue parachutes had deployed for the night-time landing after their 18-and-a-half-hour journey from the ISS.

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