Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast a day after departing the orbiting lab, where they had relieved the pilots of Boeing’s Starliner.

An international crew of four astronauts is back home on Earth Saturday after nearly five months aboard the International Space Station, returning safely in a SpaceX capsule.The Crew-10's launch into space in March allowed two US astronauts to return home after being unexpectedly stuck aboard the space station for nine months.

The four astronauts of the SpaceX and NASA Crew-10 mission splashed down off the coast of California, US, after almost five months on the ISS.