Trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown in Atlantic Ocean

The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut.

The SpaceX capsule carrying four people splashes down in the Atlantic off the Florida coast after three days in orbit. Picture: Inspiration4/AP

Four space tourists ended their trailblazing trip to orbit on Saturday with a splashdown in the Atlantic off the Florida coast.

Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the ocean just before sunset, not far from where their chartered flight began three days earlier.