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Understand who we're seeing right now. is that the medical officer as far as you can tell? what's going on? we saw, i think, one of the -- we'll call them astronauts now, flight crew attendants, whatever you want to call them, do a fist pump, as well. clearly they're excited and they know they just had a heck of a ride as the flight commander said when they splashed down. >> well, you can see the "x" for spacex on the man's shirt who has entered the capsule. so he's certainly a spacex emp employee. for previous splashdowns, the first person in has been some type of medical professional to go i...

Space center in a helicopter, where their family and all the spacex employees are waiting for a big celebration. and then finally, that capsule, that crewed dragon capsule will be brought back right here to port canaveral over the next few days. pam? >> mike, as you watched this moment, what goes through your mind? >> pam, thanks for having me. i'm really happy for the crew. i'm happy for spacex. i'm kind of happy for the world in general, i guess. this is something that nasa has been dreaming about for decades, where it could influence and help private enterprise get to space. and we try to w...

Mercury mission. anyway, they get the capsule secured and get those astronauts back out on to the boats? >> it takes on the order of many minutes. the largest ship has the crane on it that's going to lift the capsule out of the water and on to the back and into the ship. the first two that go out there i understand that they make sure everything's okay. they make sure they can bang on the door or whatever and communicate with the crew and let them know that everything is stable. but that takes -- it's a process that takes a little bit of time to make sure that everything is buttoned up appropr...

Checks, make sure that the crew is safe and healthy. and then they will hop on a helicopter and head back to florida. >> yeah, well, now that jared, hayley, sian and chris are safely back home on earth and getting checked out by our medical team, we're going to wrap up our live coverage of their historic return. we started this day -- >> jon: so you saw there jared isaacman, the commander of the mission emerge last from the capsule. he's the commander in part because well he paid for the whole trip. he's the 37-year-old tech entrepreneur who rode on a rocket built by another tech entrepreneur,...

>> so we have members of the recovery team inside the capsule with the crewmembers. they are doing some checkouts, make sure everything is good before the crew can exit the capsule. this is certainly very very exciting. again, that hatch has been closed and sealed for three days. this is the first time it's opened since we lifted off wednesday, september 15th. and we have some fist pumps from jared. i'm sure the entire crew is super excited. >> you can see them waving. [laughter] >> lots of excitement from the crew as they are getting ready to egress the dragon spacecraft.