Watch live: 2 NASA astronauts just made a fiery return to Earth aboard SpaceX's new Crew Dragon ship
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- NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley weathered a speedy, scorching-hot fall through Earth's atmosphere in SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship on Sunday. They splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:48 p.m. ET.
- In May, SpaceX made history by launching them into space aboard Crew Dragon.
- The ship and its crew successfully undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday night.
- You can watch the end of their journey live below on NASA TV and YouTube.
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After traveling more than 27 million miles around planet Earth, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have successfully returned home in SpaceX's new Crew Dragon spaceship.
The two-man crew splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida at 2:48 p.m. ET on Sunday, finishing the first commercial astronaut mission ever, called Demo-2.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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