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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) — Four astronauts in orbit since spring returned to Earth Monday, aiming for a late-night splash of water off the Florida coast.

their dismantling Space X The capsule from the International Space Station also paved the way for four new launches as early as Wednesday night.

The newcomers were scheduled to launch first, but NASA changed the order due to bad weather and an astronaut’s undisclosed medical condition. The welcome mission will now fall on the lone American and two Russians remaining on the space station.

NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide, and France’s Thomas Pesquet were due to return Monday morning, but strong winds in the recovery zone delayed their return home. Their leap was planned for the Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola.

“One more night with this magical view. Who can complain? I will miss our spaceship!” Pesquet tweeted alongside a short video showing the space station illuminated against the darkness of space and city lights twinkling on the night side of the earth.

The quartet took a tour around the space station to take pictures before leaving the neighborhood. this was the first time Space X attempted such a flight; NASA’s shuttles used to do this all the time before they retired a decade ago.

It wasn’t the most comfortable return trip. The toilet in their capsules was broken, so the astronauts had to rely on diapers for the eight-hour journey home. They shrugged late last week as just a challenge to their duties.

The first issue appeared shortly after the April highs; Mission Control warned that a piece of space junk was threatening to collide with their capsule. It turned out to be a false alarm. Then in July, thrusters at a newly arrived Russian laboratory unintentionally fired, sending the station into a turn. The four astronauts took refuge in their docks. Space X capsule, ready to leave in a hurry if necessary.