Crew Dragon Endeavour returned safely to Earth on Monday night with four astronauts on board.
NASA broadcast live as the space capsule parachuted into the Atlantic Ocean at 10.30 at night local time - from a Space. A in capsule Thomas Pesquet from France, Hoside Akihiko from Japan, and astronauts Shanem Kimbrough and Megan McArthur from the US.
The astronauts left for the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of April, where they spent around 199 days. The return journey took a total of eight hours.
SpaceX is a success story, and in recent years has grown into a company that is a serious force to be reckoned with in the space industry. The company is now on the verge of being officially selected to put men on the moon, and Blue Origin founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is no longer standing in the way. Back in August, Bezos filed a lawsuit in federal court against the US space agency's decision to award Elon Musk's SpaceX company the contract to build the Artemis lander for the moon landing programme. As now found out, unsuccessfully, as the sentencing judge rejected Blue Origin's claims.
The Artemis programme is designed to enable NASA to use the "first woman and next manto reach the Moon by 2024. Originally, NASA was to work with two companies to build a lander for future lunar missions, but due to funding constraints, only SpaceX was awarded the contract.
