The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary are back on Earth. They closed out their private spaceflight with a splashdown in the Pacific off the California coast.
A private spaceflight featuring the first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary came to a close Tuesday with a Pacific splashdown.
Their SpaceX capsule undocked from the International Space Station on Monday and parachuted into the ocean off the Southern California coast, less than 24 hours later.
The crew of four launched nearly three weeks ago on a flight chartered by the Houston company Axiom Space.
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