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The crew reported they were feeling well, NASA said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The capsule splashed down at 2:56 am (0656 GMT) in the dark in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast after a six-and-a-half hour flight from the ISS, images relayed by NASA&#8217;s WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft showed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japan&#8217;s Soichi Noguchi went to space last November as the crew on the first fully operational mission to the ISS aboard a vehicle made by Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, which has become NASA&#8217;s favored commercial transportation partner. Seven astronauts remained on the ISS including a new crew of four who arrived on a different SpaceX craft last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Thanks for your hospitality,&#8221; Hopkins said earlier as the capsule undocked from the space station for its return journey. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see you back on Earth.&#8221; Prior to that, two American astronauts made a test mission to the ISS in May and stayed for two months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was the first launch to the ISS from US soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. It was also the first crewed mission run by a private company, as opposed to NASA. Until then US astronauts had caught rides to the ISS aboard Russian spacecraft.-(AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0&#8211; A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth splashed down off Panama City early Sunday, a NASA livestream showed. 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