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Crew-8 astronauts splash down on SpaceX Dragon Endeavour after weather delays

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SpaceX Crew-8 splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola , Florida on Friday ( Oct. 25 ) at 3:29 a.m. EDT ( 0729 GMT ) Their landing after 235 days — including a more than two-week wait on board the International Space Station for acceptable conditions — set a record for their spacecraft.

The crew was originally scheduled for an Oct. 8 homecoming after completing an already-extended seven-month mission.

Crew-8 was SpaceX 's eight crew rotation flight for NASA , ninth crewed spaceflight in support of agency.

Endeavour traveled 100 million miles while completing 3,776 orbits around Earth .

The flight included SpaceX's 50th person to fly on Dragon , the company's 13th human spaceflight.