Splashdown of NASA and SpaceX Launch of Crew-1 Mission

Manager, NASA ISS Transportation Integration Office, Bill Spetch, and NASA astronaut representative, Joe Acaba, watch dolphin swim along with the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship as NASA and SpaceX teams prepare for the landing of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on Saturday, May 1, 2021. NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotation flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. NASA Photo by Bill Ingalls/UPI