Videos show SpaceX's Dragon capsule as it returns to Earth like a 'shooting star'

• A New Orleans resident captured footage of SpaceX's Crew-2 as it reentered Earth's Atmosphere.
• SpaceX CEO Elon Musk compared the capsule's descent to a "shooting star."

People took to Twitter to post videos of SpaceX's Dragon capsule as it $4 on Monday night.

After six months in outer space, SpaceX's Crew-2 astronauts splashed down off the coast of Florida. SpaceX $4 the NASA mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in April, using the same Crew Dragon capsule, Endeavour, that carried SpaceX's first crewed test flight to the ISS in 2020.

A New Orleans resident captured footage of the SpaceX crew as they entered the Earth's atmosphere.

The capsule appears to burn bright in the night sky, drawing a line over the horizon.

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The sight elicited excitement for some. One viewer $4 whether the capsule was a shooting star. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded to the tweet, saying the space company's aircraft "enters like a shooting star."

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SpaceX is set to $4, on Wednesday at 9:03 p.m. ET, on a different Dragon capsule.

Four new astronauts - NASA's Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, along with ESA's Matthias Maurer - will replace Crew-2's Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency on the ISS.

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