It took the capsule 17 hours to make the trip home, experiencing re-entry temperatures of around 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it punched through the atmosphere following Friday's ISS undocking.

The return concludes a five-month stay at the ISS for Crew-10 members—National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA) astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov—who carried out experiments aboard the orbiting laboratory.

After nearly six months onboard the International Space Station (ISS), the four astronauts of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 mission have safely returned to Earth. This weekend's splashdown off the coast of California concludes a long-duration science expedition that supported dozens of investigations sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory(R) .