Four parachutes and a small capsule splashed into a calm ocean a few miles east of Florida.
It was seven minutes after 01 the night before Sunday, Swedish time, and the first historic space trip with only "tourists" on board was over.
Gone three days
The four in the Dragon capsule - Jared Isaacman, Chris Sembroski, Sian Proctor and Hayley Arceneaux - were out in space for three days and they were the first to go into space without a fully trained astronaut leading the journey.
The spacecraft's orbit was further out into space than both the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station (ISS), and according to Elon Musk's company Spacex, the four were farther from Earth than any other human being since the lunar landing in the winter of 1972.
Money for cancer research
The 38-year-old IT billionaire Jared Isaacman was the one who had ordered the adventure.
How much he paid Spacex is a secret.
But in addition to a charity goal to raise $ 200 million ($ 1.7 billion) for cancer research, among other things, the project serves as a showcase for Elon Musk's space plans - together with the US space agency Nasa, he plans bases on both the moon and Mars.