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And what a legacy. and splashdown — the four tourists aboard the spacex inspiration—4 capsule successfully return to earth. hello. after the french president ordered the recall of ambassadors to australia and the us, washington says it plans to hold talks with senior french officials in the coming days to calm the diplomatic storm. the french ambassador to australia has now left the country, describing as a "huge mistake" its decision to unilaterally cancel a submarine contract worth tens of billions of dollars. from paris, here's hugh schofield. for the americans, the australians and the ...

Watch and we wait to see what has happened. over the course of today, how much has expectation met reality in that regard, candace? >> a thousand percent, i would say. a thousand percent. it has been the sort of precision that takes place when it comes to space travel. the reentry, the orbiting process started exactly at 6:16 p.m. the splashdown, right at 7:06 p.m. as well. all the process here is what was expected to take place. we're going to lose a signal there out from what i could see from the feed shortly. they're expected to have a press conference about less than an hour from now. it i...

>> incredible moment. we talked about what it means for those of us who are watching. talk to me historically. when we look back on this in a few years and we say watch as this splashdown happened, all civilian spacex flight, what is it we're going to be remembering and what is it we're going to be asking? >> i think it's just the first of many future flights that will happen and the analogy of discovering the new world, the next frontier and really lower orbit is our next frontier. we're going to be building additional space stations over time. we're going to send people to work and live in s...

After splashdown. [ cheers and applause ] >> pspacex splashdown. copy. >> inspiration -- >> inspiration4, on behalf of spacex, welcome home to planet earth. your mission has shown the world that sfas it for all of us and everyday people can make impacts in the world around them thank you for sharing your hope, prorpts and generosity. and congratulations on your incredible journey. >> thanks so much spacex a heck of a ride for us. feels like we're just getting

Four crew members, ordinary people, not the usual astronauts who have had years and years of training. it was billionaire businessman jared isaacman who paid for the privilege of going up into space. once they landed, after the splashdown, he said it had been a heck of a ride and he said it was just the beginning. he helped the three other crew members and paid for them to go on board. a geoscientist, a us air force veteran and a woman called hayley who was treated for bone cancer when she was a child. she has actually gone back to work at the hospital that cured her cancer. she was seen as an...