marion evans dean it's good to have you with us 2 u.s. astronauts have just splashed down in the gulf of mexico on board space x. as a dragon capsule successfully ending the 1st private test flight into space the vessel reach temperatures of nearly 2000 degrees as it streaked through earth's atmosphere astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken spent 2 months aboard the international space station the 1st astronauts launch from u.s. soil since 2011 and it's the 1st water landing carried out by nasa since 1985 as 975 rather. socially probs the water and let's go straight to keith cowing in washington he's the editor of the space news web site nasa watch dot com and also happens to be a former nasa employee good to see you again keith so we were all watching the splash down landing just a short time ago what did you make of it well it was sort of like nature will reduce when i was a little kid in the sixty's but one word you can play with this is. it was for us. well we have mentioned that this splashdown technique is a rather old fashioned way