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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station’s first visitors from India, Poland and Hungary headed back to Earth on Monday, wrapping up a private mission and catching a ride home with SpaceX. Their capsule undocked from the orbiting lab and aimed for a splashdown the next morning in the Pacific off the Southern California coast.

On July 15 2025, the four astronauts from the private Axiom-4 space mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, concluding their two-week long stint aboard the International Space Station (ISS). To return from the space station to Earth, the crew hitched a ride on SpaceX 's Dragon spacecraft.