The SpaceX Inspiration 4, carrying an all-civilian crew, has landed back on earth on Saturday after completing its three-day trip to space.

SpaceX’s fully automated Dragon capsule had reached an unusually high altitude of 363 miles (585 kilometres) after Wednesday night’s liftoff. Surpassing the International Space Station by 100 miles (160 kilometres), the passengers savoured views of Earth through a big bubble-shaped window added to the top of the capsule.

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The company tweeted to welcome the crew back home.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk also sent out a congratulatory message after the capsule splashed down on Earth.

A user wrote,” Well done! Welcome back to Earth. congratulations @SpaceX @elonmusk  #Inspiration4. Dragon now resembles that toasted marshmallow I want to eat.”

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“This is definitely a photo of the year #Inspiration4,” another user said while tweeting the landing photos of the capsule.

One user commented that it was an amazing time to be alive.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier.

The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut.

This time, NASA was little more than an encouraging bystander, its only tie being the Kennedy Space Center launch pad once used for the Apollo moonshots and shuttle crews, but now leased by SpaceX.

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The trip’s sponsor, Jared Isaacman, 38, an entrepreneur and accomplished pilot, aimed to raise $200 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Donating $100 million himself, he held a lottery for one of the four seats. He also held a competition for clients of his Allentown, Pennsylvania payment-processing business, Shift4 Payments.

Joining him on the flight were Hayley Arceneaux, 29, a St. Jude physician assistant who was treated at the Memphis, Tennessee hospital nearly two decades ago for bone cancer, and contest winners Chris Sembroski, 42, a data engineer in Everett, Washington, and Sian Proctor, 51, a community college educator, scientist and artist from Tempe, Arizona.