SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission capsule splashes down off the coast of Florida after making history when its crew conducted the first-ever spacewalk by non-professional astronauts. The Dragon spacecraft landed in the ocean at 3:37 am (0737 GMT), a webcast of the splashdown shows, with a recovery team retrieving the capsule and four crew.
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00:00There we can see that the drogue chutes have successfully deployed these drogue
00:14parachutes help to stabilize the Dragon capsule and get it into the right
00:18orientation before those main parachute with the drogue parachutes and there are
00:24the four main chutes now deployed they'll slowly open up to their full
00:30deployment here in just a few seconds
00:36as you can see on your screen and by the cheers behind us the Polaris Dawn crew
01:02has successfully splashed down. Welcome back to planet Earth Polaris Dawn.