The four crew members of Axiom Space’s Ax-4 mission have departed the International Space Station (ISS) and are on their way home after an 18-day stay aboard the orbital outpost. Traveling inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon,

A SpaceX spacecraft returning to Earth with four astronauts made its arrival known overnight with a sonic boom.

A SpaceX Dragon capsule safely returned the Axiom Mission 4 crew to Earth on Tuesday after nearly three weeks in space.

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with Ax-4 astronauts is expected to splashdown off the San Diego coast, creating a sonic boom, at around 2:31 a.m. PT on Tuesday.

A SpaceX Dragon crew vents and begins to exit the spacecraft for a spacewalk in this animation. Credit: SpaceX

More than two dozen Starlink satellites were delivered into low-Earth orbit Tuesday evening when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the California coast. The Falcon 9 carried 26 Starlink internet satellites into space.

The Dragon spacecraft piloted by Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla splashed down with grace, completing its mission after 18 days on the ISS. Waving to the camera, a smiling ‘Shux’ egressed from the Dragon spacecraft which he had piloted.