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American astronauts have succeeded in returning to the Earth by sea for the first time in 45 years. These astronauts stayed in space for 62 days aboard the SpaceX spacecraft, founded by Tesla founder Elon Musk.

This is reporter Kim Hye-min.

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white dot appears in the sky, and an object attached to the parachute appears.

The object, which descended at high speed, unfolds the parachute and falls to the sea after a while.

[Splash down! As you can see on the screen, the splash down has been confirmed.] This

is the scene where the astronaut returned to the sea and succeeded in the splash down.

Astronauts safely escaped the spacecraft.

Doug Hurley and Bob Benken's first private spacecraft, the Crew Dragon capsule, landed on the coast of Pensacola, Gulf of Florida, Florida.

The landing of the sea has been 45 years since 1975.

Astronauts separated the capsule body after our last orbit today (3rd) at 1:51 am.

After that, it survived the high heat of 1900 degrees Celsius and re-entered the atmosphere.

They boarded the Crew Dragon at SpaceX, a space exploration company founded by Elon Musk on May 30, and went to space to stay at the International Space Station ISS for 62 days and perform space missions and scientific experiments.

Crew Dragon was planning to return to the ground, but it was known to have changed the plan because it was technically simpler to make it a marine return type.