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SpaceX Dragon spacecraft returns to Earth with 1210 kg of science samples

Washington, USA - "The scientific community has eagerly awaited it"

A Space Exploration Technologies Corp SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully completed the company's second cargo flight to the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 26, with a 12:36 pm EDT (4:36 pm GMT/UTC) splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico. A boat will take the Dragon capsule to a port near Los Angeles, where it will be prepared for a...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1150928
Rome, Italy, 03/27/2013 11:02
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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