A cosmonaut on the space station photographed SpaceX's Crew Dragon landing site — and a 'beeline' of boats speeding toward it

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• Photos from the International Space Station captured the historic landing of SpaceX's first crewed mission from 250 miles above Earth.
• The photos from space show the boats that swarmed the capsule after splashdown — many of them civilian onlookers.
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NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, tucked inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship, survived a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere on Sunday. They landed safely in the Gulf of Mexico, a return that marked the completion of the first human space mission in a commercial vehicle.

As the toasted capsule bobbed in the water, its parachutes floating around it, it was quickly swarmed by boats. Some of them were recovery boats with professional teams from NASA and SpaceX. But many were just onlookers.

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