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Sticking the Landing
By 2012.10.29 0 Comments Read More →

Sticking the Landing

Video of SpaceX Dragon capsule  landing yesterday.  Tweeted by SpaceX, this video shot from a recovery boat, underscores the accuracy of the Dragon’s re-entry and landing profile. With a splashdown nearly on top of the waiting recovery team,  SpaceX demonstrated an accuracy that is sometime elusive in Russian Soyuz capsule’s 25 miles landing ellipse. As long time Russian space industry analyst James Oberg  has pointed […]

Posted in: NASA, Soyuz, SpaceX
Once More, A Dragon at Sea
By 2012.10.28 2 Comments Read More →

Once More, A Dragon at Sea

The SpaceX  Dragon capsule safely returned to earth, or more accurately, to sea today, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja at 12:22 PM PT.  The return marks the end of NASA Commercial Resupply Flight number  1, and a conclusion to the first official commercial supply run to space in history. Future cargo trips, whether to private stations, […]

Posted in: COTS/Commercial Crew, NASA, SpaceX
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