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Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with Crew-5 members aboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Saturday, March 11, 2023.
The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with Crew-5 mission members aboard on Saturday, March 11, 2023.

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with Crew-5 mission members aboard on Saturday, March 11, 2023. The crew returned in a parachute-assisted splashdown at 9:02 p.m. EST.

During the 156.5 days they spent aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 68, Crew-5 participated in several spacewalks to prepare the space station for solar arrays and conducted various experiments, including growing plants without soil and studying radiation exposure.

Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber