WATCH THE REPLAY, SpaceX Crew Dragon DM-2 Returns to Earth SpaceX returned from the International Space Station for the first time with their Crew Dragon capsule carrying 2 American astronauts. After a 63-day stay at the Space Station, Crew Dragon with the two NASA astronauts aboard the spacecraft autonomously undocked and departed from the orbiting laboratory at 7:35 p.m. EDT on Saturday, August 1. Dragon splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 2:48 p.m. EDT on Sunday, August 2.