NASA, SpaceX complete historic first mission to space station (18 images)

NASA and SpaceX completed a historic mission on Sunday with the return of four astronauts from the International Space Station. The Crew-1 mission marked the first time four people flew in a space capsule and was only the second crewed launch for SpaceX and NASA's commercial crew program.

Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Victor Glover and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard in the Gulf of Mexico off Panama City, Fla., on Sunday. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA

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From left to right, Walker, Glover, Hopkins and Noguchi are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after their splashdown in the Gulf. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA

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Hopkins is helped out of the Resilience spacecraft onboard the recovery ship after splashdown. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA

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NASA employees watch a dolphin swim along with the recovery ship as NASA and SpaceX teams prepare for splashdown in the Gulf. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA

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