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Dragon Splashes Down

SpaceX Dragon capsule after splashdown on barge
SpaceX's Dragon capsule sits on a barge after being retrieved from the Pacific Ocean after splashdown. Dragon splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 11:42 a.m. EDT a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico, marking a successful end to the first mission by a commercial company to resupply the ISS.

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule sits on a barge after being retrieved from the Pacific Ocean after splashdown.
Dragon splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, May 31, 2012, at 11:42 a.m. EDT a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico, marking a successful end to the first mission by a commercial company to resupply the International Space Station.Image Credit: SpaceX