Friday, March 8, 2019

AP Has Some Serious Science Geekery

SpaceX’s swanky new crew capsule returned from the International Space Station to an old-fashioned splashdown in the Atlantic on Friday, successfully ending a test flight that could lead to astronaut rides later this year.
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It was the first time in 50 years that a capsule designed for astronauts returned from space by plopping into the Atlantic. Apollo 9 — which orbited Earth in preparation for the moon landings — splashed down near the Bahamas on March 13, 1969.
They're right about that. The rest of the Apollo missions, including the Skylab missions and the Apollo-Soyuz Project, all splashed down in the Pacific.

That's some top-shelf science geekery, there.

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