Four astronauts splashed down to Earth early on Monday, returning home after spending six months on a rotation mission at the International Space Station. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule parachuted off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, bringing a spectacle to many residents of the north-east part of the state just after midnight. The astronauts, members of a mission run by Nasa and SpaceX, said they were craving hot showers, steaming cups of coffee and the ocean air right before departing the station early on Sunday. The Crew-6 team included the Nasa astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Sultan al-Neyadi​, and the Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Al-Neyadi​ made history this Labor Day weekend after completing the longest ever Arab space mission. The crew’s arrival, which was originally scheduled for Saturday, comes days after Hurricane Idalia made landfall on Florida’s Gulf coast. During the Crew-6 mission, Bowen conducted three spacewalks, joined by Hoburg for two, and Alneyadi for one, and installed two new International Space Station roll-out solar arrays to increase power generation for the station. After the splashdown on Monday, the astronauts said it was incredible to be back. “You’ve got a roomful of happy people here,” SpaceX Mission Control radioed. The international crew spent 186 days in orbit. Teams on the SpaceX recovery ship, including two fast boats, headed to secure the capsule after it landed on Earth. Another crew switch at the station will occur later this month after SpaceX successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft in late August with four crew members onboard from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Between crew swaps, the space station is home to seven astronauts. The new team, with astronauts from Denmark, Japan and Russia, was the first US launch in which every spacecraft seat was occupied by an astronaut from a different country. Monday’s homecoming marked the fourth trip to space and back for the Dragon Endeavor after SpaceX carried out Axiom-1, Crew-2 and Demo-2. Another Nasa astronaut will launch to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan later this month, along with two Russians.