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SpaceX's Crew-1 Dragon capsule successfully splashdown at 2:56 a.m. EDT (0656 GMT) in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida near Panama City. Read our full story here on NASA's first nighttime splashdown of a crew since Apollo 8 in 1968. Crew-1's return to Earth wrapped up the Expedition 64 mission to the space station. Returning home on Resilience were NASA astronauts Victor Glover, pilot; Mike Hopkins, commander; Shannon Walker, mission specialist and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, mission specialist. The astronauts launched to the station on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in November.

SpaceX's Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft, called Resilience, is scheduled to undock from the space station at 8:35 p.m. EDT (0035 GMT) after delays due to bad weather at its splashdown site on Earth. The spacecraft will return NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi home after six months in space. You can watch SpaceX's Crew-1 Dragon undocking here and on the Space.com homepage, courtesy of NASA TV. NASA's livestream will begin at 6 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) and will continue until splashdown, which is scheduled for Sunday at 2:57 a.m. EDT (0657...