Four astronauts return home from space station after successful splashdown | AFP

An international crew of four astronauts is back home on Earth after nearly five months aboard the International Space Station, returning safely in a SpaceX capsule. The spacecraft carrying US astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan's Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov splashes down off California's coast at 8.44 am local time (1534 GMT).