Elon Musk-led SpaceX today successfully brought back four NASA astronauts to Earth in the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov returned to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. Welcoming the Crew, in a social media post, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the coast of San Diego, California.

 

 

The astronauts concluded a more than five-month mission aboard the ISS, and their early departure leaves just three -NASA’s Chris Williams and cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev on the space station. During their 167-day mission, the four crew members travelled nearly 71 million miles and completed more than 2,670 orbits around Earth.