Private space venture SpaceX successfully launched its space capsule last week and safely brought back the capsule yesterday. Here are a few pictures sourced from the web (primarily via tweets) that tell you the story as the craft arrived on earth…
Visually Narration of A Dragon’s Fiery Plunge From Space
Private space venture SpaceX successfully launched its space capsule last week and safely brought back the capsule yesterday. Here are a few pictures sourced from the web (primarily via tweets) that tell you the story as the craft arrived on earth…
Storified by Andy Palanisamy · Fri, Jun 01 2012 18:39:17
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Around 1000 SpaceX employees stand behind SpaceX Mission Control waiting for Dragon’s return to Earth. http://pic.twitter.com/FnMC6HKmSpaceX
More #Dragon images #SpaceX: descent on main parachutes http://pic.twitter.com/KaHD91MGInara Pey
RT @SpaceX: Dragon’s main parachutes just after splashdown in the Pacific http://pic.twitter.com/f0MuRp1lMark
There’s a #Dragon in the water! #SpaceX http://pic.twitter.com/5Go9l8WqInara Pey
First picture of #Dragon in the ocean as it awaits recovery. http://pic.twitter.com/sEtwNqagSpaceX
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After splashdown a dive team secured Dragon before it was lifted onto a barge (Credit: NASA/US Navy) http://pic.twitter.com/OqF7ghXZSpaceX
Dragon on the barge after being retrieved from the Pacific Ocean after splashdown. http://pic.twitter.com/fpHwApc0SpaceX
That was in space! Cool! RT @SpaceX Dragon on the barge after being retrieved from the Pacific Ocean after splashdown. http://pic.twitter.com/gnCuoFADDan St. John
RT @MarkLiederbach: Before, During, and After. The life of the @SpaceX #Dragon capsule :) #NASASocial http://pic.twitter.com/8dhtPC5JStephan Myers
And this image below sums up how nerds like me felt to see this new chapter in space history was written..
Totally stoked about success of #SpaceX ‘s #Dragon congrats to buddy & partner in crime, Denise, & who works for SpaceX http://pic.twitter.com/FEHIsrmjKathie Sedwick
Remember when those two satellites collidedthe other day? Seems that they’ll be thespace junk gift that keeps on giving, as their 800-km debris orbiting field could hamper allfuture space launches.
“Future launches will have to be adjusted with regard to the fact that the debris [from the collision] has spread over an 800-km area and will gather at a common orbit in 5-6 years,” said Alexander Stepanov, director of the Pulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg.