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tabatha

(18,795 posts)
Fri Jun 1, 2012, 12:20 PM Jun 2012

Dragon Splashes Down



SpaceX's Dragon capsule sits on a barge after being retrieved from the Pacific Ocean after splashdown.

Dragon splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 11:42 a.m. EDT a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico, marking a successful end to the first mission by a commercial company to resupply the International Space Station.

Credit: Image Courtesy of SpaceX


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