History-making NASA-SpaceX astronauts returning from International Space Station

, the first NASA-SpaceX astronauts finally have a return flight scheduled.

ABC News' transportation correspondent Gio Benitez caught up with NASA veterans Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley from the International Space Station on June 8, 2020.Their return would mark the first time a commercially built American spacecraft returned from space. It's also NASA's first crewed water landing since 1975.

"The water-landing portion of it is pretty challenging from a physiological standpoint," he noted, especially after being in a microgravity environment for months. He said they have exercised"very hard" to help prepare. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken greet their families before the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 27, 2020.

After the splashdown, SpaceX will send two boats to first check the capsule and make sure the area around it is free of hypergolic propellant vapors. The second boat will recover the parachutes.The first boat then will hoist the capsule with Hurley and Behnken in it and move it to a stable location for the hatch to be opened as medical professionals look on. After a medical check, Behnken and Hurley will board a NASA plane to Houston.

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GioBenitez Safe journeys to both. Welcome home.

GioBenitez Good luck bob and doug! It seems like forever ago that I watched you guys blast off. So lucky, you guys get to leave this crazy place of an earth.

GioBenitez Trust me. Stay up there, fellas.

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