CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour splashed down successfully in the Gulf of Mexico just after 10:33 p.m. ET Monday.

After undocked from the International Space Station earlier in the night, the spacecraft executed a series of burns to begin its return home. Before those burns, Crew-2 completed a flyaround of the space station to take photographs of its exterior.

Members of the Crew-2 mission — NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet — returned with about 530 pounds of hardware and scientific experiments when they splashed down after 199 days in space.

Crews respond to the Crew-2 Dragon Capsule Endeavour Monday night after it splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo: NASA)

The return probably couldn't come soon enough for the Crew-2 astronauts because the toilet on their capsule was broken, and they have had to resort to wearing diapers on the way home.

The return had been delayed because of weather conditions, which was just one more thing in a series of challenges the crew has faced.

They also had to deal with a toilet leak, which resulted in pools of urine the crew only found after pulling up panels in their SpaceX capsule. The problem was first noted during SpaceX’s private flight in September, when a tube came unglued and spilled urine beneath the floorboards.

SpaceX fixed the toilet on the capsule awaiting liftoff, but deemed the one in orbit unusable.