SpaceX ends space station supply mission with a splashdown
Monday, October 29, 2012 - 01:20
in Astronomy & Space
SpaceX's Dragon capsule returns from the space station, completing the Hawthorne firm's first of 12 such cargo delivery missions under a NASA contract.SpaceX's Dragon space capsule survived a fiery reentry into the Earth's atmosphere and splashed down about 250 miles west of the Southern California coast Sunday, concluding NASA's first contracted cargo mission to the International Space Station.