The SpaceX astronaut team that reached the International Space Station safely splashes down in the Atlantic off Florida's coast.
The first all-private astronaut team to board the International Space Station has safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida's coast, concluding a two-week science mission hailed as a landmark in commercialised human spaceflight.
The mission's crew was assembled, equipped and trained entirely at private expense by Axiom, a five-year-old venture based in Houston and headed by NASA's former ISS program manager. Axiom also has contracted with NASA to build the first commercial addition to and ultimate replacement for the space station.
Joining them as "mission specialists" were investor-philanthropist and former Israeli fighter pilot Eytan Stibbe, 64, and Canadian businessman and philanthropist Mark Pathy, 52. Applause was heard from the SpaceX flight control center in suburban Los Angeles as parachutes billowed open above the capsule in the final stage of its descent — slowing its fall to about 15 miles per hour — and again as the craft hit the water off the coast of Jacksonville.
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