The Dragon has landed!!! 🐉
Welcome back to Earth Bob & Doug. Two drogue chutes followed by four main chutes, all operated flawlessly, autonomously, and on target. And, as we heard on the radio from mission control:
“Thank You for flying SpaceX”
Successful Splashdown of the First SpaceX Crew Mission
The Apollo astronauts did not have that perspective in real time.
The chutes detach and flutter down, to be recovered by the fast boats:
Bob bobbing at sea: 
Sniffing for hypergolic fuels before opening the hatch:
Gotta preserve that new car smell
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