Breaking: NASA astronauts aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splash down in the Gulf of Mexico in first water landing in 45 years.

The launch two months ago went about as smoothly as possible, flying American astronauts into orbit from U.S. soil for the first time since 2011. And SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft docked so gracefully with the International Space Station that NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley didn’t even feel it.

Now they are coming home.

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley boarded their Endeavour spacecraft and undocked from the station at 7:35 p.m. Eastern time Saturday as the space station flew 267 miles above Johannesburg.

Their history-making flight came to an end on schedule at 2:41 p.m. Eastern time off Florida’s Gulf Coast, the first water landing in 45 years….

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Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are back on Earth, but still a ways from home. SpaceX landing crews will launch two speed boats from the recovery mother ship Go Navigator, stationed three miles away from the projected landing site, to verify that the Endeavour spacecraft is safe and prepared for recovery…

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The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour capsule carrying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken has splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., completing an 18-hour flight to Earth from the International Space Station.