The Demo-2 splashdown will be a historic moment. For one thing, it will be a "back to the future" moment: the last time astronauts made an ocean landing was on July 24, 1975 to complete the Apollo ...

Watch Endeavour's return to Earth in the video below (skip to the 6.28 mark for the splashdown). Update (Aug. 4, 2020): This article originally had video of a previous practice splashdown.

The Demo-2 mission followed a March 2019 uncrewed flight test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, an upgrade of the Dragon cargo ships the company has been flying to the ISS for NASA since 2012.

The splashdown culminated the historic Demo-2 flight which launched humans into orbit on the first-ever privately owned and operated rocket and spacecraft from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center ...

Two NASA Demo-2 astronauts continued preparing on July 31 for a weekend return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) and a splashdown off the Florida coast as Tropical Storm Isaias ...

The Demo-2 mission came to a successful end after Crew Dragon splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday. You can watch the replay here. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

While NASA announced shortly before the Demo-2 launch that Crew-1 would launch as soon as Aug. 30, he said there is an “iron bar” of six weeks between the Demo-2 splashdown and Crew-1 launch ...

After that successful splashdown at 8:45 a.m. the SpaceX ship took the craft out of the water to bring it back to land. The #CrewDragon completed its Demo-1 flight test this morning.

The Demo-2 mission was the first astronaut splashdown in 45 years and also marked the first crewed launch and landing in American territory since the final space shuttle mission in 2011.

The four members of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission climbed aboard the Crew Dragon Endurance and departed the International Space ...