SpaceX Brings 4 Astronauts Back to Earth After 6-Month Stint on International Space Station

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft launches on the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 30, 2020. SpaceX via Getty Images

A four-member team of astronauts launched to the International Space Station by SpaceX touched back down on Earth in the Gulf of Mexico on May 6.

The return via a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule came just one day after the group undocked from the space station following a six-month mission in which they conducted science experiments and did maintenance.