'Dragon is stable': Elon Musk confirms good splashdown after Crew Dragon's 19hr journey

Elon Musk is a happy man today!  As Crew Dragon capsule splashed down into Gulf of Mexico at 12:18 am IST on August 3, X CEO took to Twitter to inform that ‘dragon is stable’. Crew Dragon’s successful landing in ocean marked first splashdown in 45 years,

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Crew Dragon Capsule’s 19-hour journey definitely kept X CEO on edge of his seat. In a series of tweets, Musk had been updating historic return of two NASA astronauts. While in one tweet he informed that Dragon lost its signal, in ar he said that acquisition of signal is expected in 5 mins. 

long wait ended as NASA and X teams confirmed a 'good splashdown' and welcomed two US astronauts, Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley, on Earth after 63 days in .

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Historic splashdown 

X’s Crew Dragon Capsule successfully landed in ocean off coast of Florida at 12:18 am IST on August 3. After spending 63-days at International Station (ISS), two US astronauts, Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley returned to Earth. NASA astronauts blasted off from Cape Canaveral on May 30 and landed at ISS next day. 

Behnken and Hurley made history when y became first people to be launched into low-Earth orbit on a commercial craft built by X. mission, Demo-2, also marked first time NASA had launched astronauts from US soil in nine years.

w that two astronauts have landed, Crew Dragon Capsule will be in water for about an hour before it is hauled by crane onto a X recovery ship. It will be ar hour before hatch is opened and two astronauts are moved to recovery. 

(Im Credits: AP) 

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