-And if you're just now tuning in, this is Dragon.
This is Dragon coming home.
This is from a camera on board a chase plane
there at the landing zone over the Atlantic,
about 200-or-so nautical miles off the coast of Florida.
We're under 30 kilometers, continuing to descend.
The next milestone we're gonna be looking for
is parachute deployment.
The Dragon spacecraft continuing to descend.
It's now sub-sonic,
so already starting to slow down thanks to the arrow
braking basically slamming into that Earth's atmosphere.
It causes a lot of friction and allows the vehicle
to eventually reach its terminal velocity, basically.
And then those parachutes are gonna kick in.
-So, there you have visual confirmation
of the deployment of our drogue parachutes.
This is the first of two parachute deployments.
-And so those drogue chutes do the initial slowing,
and then they're ultimately gonna pull out
before our main parachutes,
responsible for really slowing the spacecraft
down prior to that splash-in.
-You can hear cheering here at SpaceX headquarters
as the employees that have gathered
around our Mission Control Center
are sharing the same view as you.
What a gorgeous shot of Dragon coming back down.
-And then here come the mains. -So, for the next few seconds,
we will see those main parachutes, exactly like that,
begin to expand as they capture more air,
further decelerating the Dragon vehicle
down to the Atlantic Ocean.
Really can't ask for a more picture-perfect shot than that.
-And, yes, all four chutes now deployed.
It's gonna continue to descend.
It's gonna continue to slow down
and ultimately splash down in the Atlantic there.
We're now under a kilometer in altitude.
Just about 750 meters to go.
-In case if you're just joining us,
you can see on your screen there Dragon
has just re-entered the Earth's atmosphere
after departing from the International Space Station.
We have a gorgeous shot of four healthy parachutes deployed
and slowing the vehicle down as it is approaching the surface
of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
-And it's continuing to descend under those chutes.
We just passed 500 meters,
everything continuing to look good
via reports to all the flight control teams.
Now we're at about 400 meters.
And just passing 300 meters, continuing to descend.
We might be right on time.
We were planning on splashing down at about 5:45 a.
m. Pacific,
and we're getting real close to that bingo time,
just past 200 meters.
-And we have confirmation that Dragon
is now under 100 meters --
is 100 meters above the surface of the Ocean.
-So, next up, standing by for splashdown.
-And there we have confirmation of splashdown.
Dragon has returned to planet Earth.
It is now back home.