“We welcome you back to planet Earth, and thanks for flying SpaceX,” SpaceX s Mission Control radioed moments after splashdown. “For those of you enrolled in our frequent flyer program, you ve earned 68 million miles on this voyage.” “We ll take those miles,” said spacecraft commander Mike Hopkins. “Are they transferrable?” SpaceX replied that the astronauts would have to check with the company s marketing department. Within a half-hour of splashdown, the charred capsule – resembling a giant toasted marshmallow – had been hoisted onto the recovery ship.
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SpaceX returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first US crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.
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