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Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft splashed down
in the Pacific Ocean at 3:22 p.m. EDT Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, a few
hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico. The splashdown
successfully ended the first contracted cargo delivery flight contracted
by NASA to resupply the International Space Station.
The
Dragon capsule will be taken by boat to a port near Los Angeles, where
it will be prepared for a return journey to SpaceX's test facility in
McGregor, Texas, for processing. Returning with the Dragon capsule was
1,673 pounds of cargo, including 866 pounds of scientific research. Not
since the space shuttle have NASA and its international partners been
able to return considerable amounts of research and samples for
analysis.
Image Credit: SpaceX
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