Dragon's return to Earth was delayed one day by bad weather in the splashdown zone.

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And more recently, in the year 2000, NASA maneuvered a satellite to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

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As an aside, NASA also notes that Dragon is still set to arrive back on earth for a splashdown on the 25th, as initially planned.

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The successful splashdown Thursday of SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the world's first commercial space cargo ship, is drawing high praise from spaceflight experts and lawmakers alike.

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Standing in our front yard watching a half moon over the Western horizon, I remember wondering whether the crippled Apollo 13 Command Module would ever see splashdown.

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Major Tim's expedition is the 16th in the programme, and "splashdown" - the moment the crew arrived at Aquarius - occurred at 12:00 EDT (17:00 BST) on Monday.

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SpaceX, for its part, won accolades 18 months ago for successfully orbiting and safely returning the first commercially built cargo capsule to a pinpoint splashdown off the coast of Mexico.

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Wish her all the best for the splashdown today.

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The unmanned Dragon spacecraft cast off from the International Space Station early Thursday morning and survived a fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere to make an apparently flawless splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.

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