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10:20, 02 May 2021 BST| Last updated 11:26, 02 May 2021 BST
Elon Musk's SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, in the United States' first nighttime splashdown landing since 1968. Watch the landing here:
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The Dragon capsule landed in the Gulf of Mexico, just off the coast of Panama City, Florida, before 3am local time (7am GMT).
Taking only six-and-a-half hours, the journey back to Earth marked the end of the second astronaut flight for the space exploration company.
The capsule, named Resilience, carried home the astronauts - three of whom were American and one Japanese - having launched from the Kennedy Space Center in November.
Credit: PASpaceX's Mission Control radioed: "We welcome you back to planet Earth and thanks for flying SpaceX.
"For those of you enrolled in our frequent flyer program, you've earned 68 million miles on this voyage."
Spacecraft commander Mike Hopkins said: "We'll take those miles.
"Are they transferable?"
Hopkins then reported that he could see lights from the recovery boats out of the capsule's window.
Credit: PAThe 167-day mission is the longest for US-based astronauts, with the previous record of 84 days set by NASA's Skylab crew back in 1974.
The undocking this morning saw four people return from the space station, leaving behind a further seven, who will stay on the ISS.
