The capsule separated from the ISS on Friday before beginning its fiery reentry, heating up to about 1,925 degrees Celsius. As it neared Earth, large parachutes deployed to slow its descent from 28,100 kilometers per hour to just above 25 kilometers per hour.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers and two international crew members splashed down in the Pacific off California Saturday in the first such landing for NASA in 50 years.