PENSACOLA, F.L. (WSYR-TV) — Syracuse native astronaut Jeanette Epps and her crewmates have safely returned to Planet Earth after an eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
The SpaceX spacecraft, a Dragon capsule named Endeavor, landed in the Gulf of Mexico outside Pensacola, Florida, around 3:30 a.m. Friday.
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The capsule, dirtied by space dust, was lifted onto a recovery boat just before 4 am.
The splashdown ends Epps and Crew-8’s 34-hour trip home, after 235 days in space…