July 24, 1969: Apollo 11 returns home

#OTD in 1991…The launch of Columbia on Spacelab Life Sciences 1 mission

#OTD in 1990…Discovery launched the Ulysses probe bound for the sun

A video from SpaceX shows the company’s Crew Dragon capsule plunging toward the Gulf of Mexico, then unfurling a series of parachutes to slow the spaceship carrying two NASA astronauts from 350 mph to a relatively gentle 15 mph for splashdown Sunday.