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Elon Musk's SpaceX capsule splashes down off Florida coast

2019-03-10

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - An unmanned capsule from Elon Musk’s SpaceX splashed into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, successfully completing a mission crucial to NASA’s long-delayed quest to resume human space flight from U.S. soil later this year.

After a six-day mission to the International Space Station, Crew Dragon detached at about 2:30 a.m EST (0730 GMT) and sped back to earth, reaching hypersonic speeds before an 8:45 a.m. EST (1345 GMT) splash-down about 200 miles (320 km) off the Florida coast.

A SpaceX rocket launched the 16-foot-tall (4.9-meter) capsule from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida last Saturday.

"Everything happened just perfectly, right on time the way that we expected it to," Benjamin Reed, SpaceX’s director of crew mission management, said in a live stream from California.

Posted by:Besoeker

#4 It's like a Baby on Board sticker. Ostentatiously signaling you have done something that was done by others in the past. And, lessee. Private companies only got into this when a demand arose? Really?

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-03-10 14:00

#3 I remember those. Kind of like a softer tootsie roll.

Posted by: Tyranysaurus Clavith3514 2019-03-10 13:56

#2 space food sticks?
Posted by: Woodrow

Yes I do.

Posted by: ruotnelav 2019-03-10 13:46

#1 Almost as significant as the first Mercury splashdown. Having actually been in a Mercury as a child, I don't say that lightly. Musk is doing what NASA couldn't. Or won't.

The next big step will be to actually build a planetary ship at a space station.

Sunday trivia. Does anyone remember eating space food sticks?

Posted by: Woodrow 2019-03-10 08:00

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