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Toward the ship. it's going to go on the ship and we're told a medical officer will check out the crew before they leave that capsule. walk us through, kristin, more about what's going on here and what would the medical officer be looking for? >> so right now, this is the moment where i believe that they're actually beginning to pull the capsule, the dragon capsule off. they're going to be pulling it back into -- see that little donut-shaped thing right there. they're going to be bringing the capsule down into that doughnut. they call it the nest. and once it's there, they're going to check to...

Is experiencing temperatures of about 3,500 degrees fahrenheit. it forces this fiery plasma to quite literally engulf the capsule, causing that communications blackout for six or seven minutes, in which the mission control on the ground and the crew in the capsule cannot communicate with one another. and even though you know that this is happening and you prepare for it, it has to be a slightly unnerving moment knowing that you're just on your own out there, hurtling through space. elon musk described it as a meteor going through. and he said, you know, we had to do everything to make sure tha...

You can see that on your left-hand screen of the camera, looking forward above the dragon capsule, looking at those four main chutes. >> 1,000. >> copy, 1,000. >> the next event coming up now is a visual confirmation of splashdown. you can see the dragon capsule on your right-hand screen slowly coming down now. we talked about how fast the vehicle has been traveling, but they will be touching down approximately 15 miles per hour when they touch the atlantic ocean there. >> copy, 800. >> now, the dragon 1 program had great success with the water landing with 20 successful splashdowns of the cou...

Direction. because you have to prove, in order to colonize mars and send hundreds of people to another planet, you have to prove that your everyday person is capable of withstanding the rigors of orbital space flight first. that's what this mission was all about, when you hear them talking about opening up space to everyone. one thing i want to point out in terms of what you're seeing right now happening, you see like a man, he's with the crew -- the capsule recovery team, kind of hanging on to the edge of the capsule. what he's doing is he's attaching all the hooks and ropes, so to speak, whi...

Everybody to the crew dragon resilience. >> the crew within the dragon capsule reached the farthest traveled by humans since apollo in the '70s and shared truly stunning images. and board a wealthy benefactor, an engineer, a physician's assistant who had childhood bone cancer and connected with st. jude's. >> can you take pictures in space. >> absolutely. and we've been taking pictures and video so we can capture the moment and share with everybody when we come home. >> and while orbiting the earth, the amateur team had fun. at one point playing the ukulele and experimenting with gravity with ...