SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission splashed down on Earth on Saturday evening (local time) to end a historic three-day trip to space that consisted of the world’s first-ever all-civilian crew. The Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, deployed its Drogue parachute to safely descend into the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Flordia shortly before sunset at 7 pm EDT after following an automated re-entry protocol.
“Splashdown! Welcome back to planet Earth @Inspiration4x!” the company tweeted.
The four crew members were – Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year-old physician assistant at St Jude Children’s Research Center in Tennessee, aerospace data engineer Sian Proctor, 51, Air Force veteran Chris Sembroski, 42, and 38-year-old entrepreneur Jared Issacman, who was the mission’s commander.