The Dragon has completed its historic adventure to the International Amplitude Station. The aboriginal clandestine spaceship to anytime berth with the base has alternate home. Here is how it happened.
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Dragon is bringing added burden than it took to the ISS, which is aswell actual significant: afterwards retiring the amplitude shuttle we didn't accept any adequacy to accompany burden aback from space.
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10:48AM: Three account for de-orbit burn.
10:54AM: All systems go for de-orbit burn, but it's accepting added than three account now.
10:55AM: Man, mission ascendancy just doesn't accept the agreeableness and awesomeness of yesteryear. Remember the amazing mission ascendancy during Apollo? That looked so badass.
10:57AM: Aggregate seems to be traveling fine.
10:58AM: 46 account for splashdown. The aggregation is accessible to aces up the Dragon from the ocean.
10:59AM: Two account to go afore the bake is completed.
11:02AM: There's a guy arena Angry Birds Amplitude on his iPad appropriate next to me.
11:03AM: Dragon is in the appropriate position for break of its trunk, the absorbed butt that holds the solar panels.
11:04AM: Angry Birds crap. I'm arena Galaga.
11:07AM: I got the two spaceships. The two spaces accept docked! I'm blame some austere amplitude fly ass.
11:08AM: SpaceX is advertisement a big blooming light.
11:09AM: Splash still on schedule. It will be at 11:44AM. That's a lot of abode in Galaga.
11:10AM: Hey amplitude nerds, did you apperceive that the alteration of Venus is advancing up on June 5? That's traveling to bang ass. You can watch it on NASA TV. Or if you are in NYC, you can go to the American Museum of Natural History planetarium to watch it in a huge screen, live.
11:12AM: The block is now gone. Acceptable bye trunk. You lived a abounding life.
11:16AM: Accept I anytime told you about that time in which I absorb one hour talking with Buzz Aldrin? Apart from accepting a hero, he's such a absolute gentleman. And a genius. He was the one to appear with this accomplished abstraction of alternate rendezvous. Thanks to him the Dragon was able to do this mission.
11:21AM: Dragon is accepting abreast its re-entry point, area it will appointment Earth's atmosphere. It will accept a radio blackout from 11:27 to 11:33. Radio blackouts appear if spaceships re-enter Earth's atmosphere, as the ability gets ionized.
11:22AM: I'm animated I accept an Ion Arcade iCade to play Galaga. This bold is absurd with touchscreen controls.
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11:23AM: That barbate guy on the larboard is just blockage his phone. Hey barbate guy, what are you doing? Watch the consoles! Say accost to us in Twitter, barbate guy!
11:26AM: Dragon is activity the furnishings of the atmosphere. Which means: FIRE. And a aisle of claret like this.
11:27AM: All traveling good. Hot, but all good. Radio blackout begins, according to mission control.
11:28AM: BEARDED GUY!
11:30AM: Barbate guy doesn't assume actual amused. He's accepting a bad day. Poor barbate guy.
11:31AM: SpaceX will abolish NASA's burden central Dragon if it deports in California. NASA will accept its being aural 48 hours. SpaceFedEx.
11:33AM: Dragon has been spotted by a NASA plane, application an IR camera. Acceptable re-entry confirmed.
11:35AM: No parachute deployment yet. The air-conditioned affair about Dragon is that, in the actual abreast future, it will acreage with rockets. No parachutes, but rockets on a landing pad. You know, like in amplitude movies. That would be appealing amazing to watch.
11:37AM: Main parachutes deployed. "That's abundant news", says ISS astronaut Don Pettit.
11:38AM: All three parachutes are working.
11:40AM: I absence mission control's barbate guy.
11:41AM: Oh, analysis it out, is SpaceX's CEO and architect Elon Musk on the aboriginal row, in the average with the atramentous t-shirt. Hi Elon! Elon, I achievement you are advancing to our superspace affair at the American Museum of Natural History in July.
11:42AM: Dragon has splashed down! Congratulations SpaceX!
11:43AM: Team is now acknowledging the area of Dragon. Once they accept the exact GPS advice they will broadcast it to the accretion vessels.
11:49AM: Well, seems that aggregate is good. Dragon has splashed actual abutting to its target. Argosy are arriving. All is good. I'm aback to arena Galaga. Congratulations again, Elon and team!
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