Live: SpaceX Crew Demo-2 Splashdown

UPDATE: SpaceX’s Dragon capsule successfully splashed down, returning NASA astronauts back to earth safely.

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico after a two-month stay at the International Space Station.

The astronauts were carried to ISS aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, marking a return to human spaceflight by the U.S. NASA’s last crewed flight happened in July 2011.

Behnken and Hurley are expected to splashdown at 2:48 p.m. ET. off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. The splashdown is the first such landing since 1975.

Watch SpaceX’s livestream of the splashdown above.

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