First view of Crew Dragon Endeavour after splashdown

A first view of the Crew Dragon Endeavour splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico after 199 days in space. ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet returned to Earth on 9 November 2021 alongside NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, marking the end of his second six-month International Space Station mission known as Alpha.

Thomas is the first European to fly to the International Space Station and return on a commercial spacecraft. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour transporting Crew-2 autonomously undocked from the International Space Station and after a series of burns, entered Earth’s atmosphere and deployed parachutes for a soft water-landing. Thomas and crew splashed down off the coast of Florida, USA on 9 November 2021 at 03:33 GMT (04:33 CET).