SpaceX Dragon capsule splashes down with ton of space station cargo

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, 26 March 2013 | 10:45

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SpaceX’s Dragon load plug floats down to a Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.

SpaceX pronounced a robotic Dragon plug splashed down in a Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, bringing behind some-more than a ton of load from a International Space Station.

“Welcome home!” a California-based association pronounced in a Twitter update, heralding a Dragon’s lapse to Earth after some-more than 3 weeks in space. SpaceX pronounced a liberation organisation watched a booster deplane to a sea during a finish of a parachutes, and a boat headed to a site to transport a plug aboard and move it behind to port.

“Time to go fishing!” a Canadian Space Agency pronounced in a congratulatory tweet.

The on-time splashdown came during 12:34 p.m. ET, 5 and a half hours after a Dragon was

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