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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Splashdown

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Splashdown

Boats belonging to the SpaceX recovery team are seen in the Gulf of Mexico after being deployed from the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN as the recovery team prepares for the landing of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin aboard, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. Dominick, Barratt, Epps, Grebenkin are returning after seven-months days in space as part of Expedition 71 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

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