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Watch the SpaceX-NASA Crew-1 astronauts' incredible journey back to Earth

May 3, 2021

On Sunday, May 2, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission quietly made history.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, with its nose cone open, is pictured docked to the Harmony module...

Crew-1 marked NASA’s first operational, long-duration commercial crew mission. The crew traveled in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, carried by a Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station.

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