The Dragon has fill out itshistoric journey to the International Space Station . The first individual starship to ever dock with the station has returned home . Here is how it bump .
https://gizmodo.com/watch-space-x-dragon-make-its-historic-iss-dock-live-u-5913298
Dragon is bringing more consignment than it took to the ISS , which is also very significant : afterretiring the space shuttlewe did n’t have any capableness to bring cargo back from infinite .
https://gizmodo.com/the-definitive-goodbye-space-shuttle-desktop-wallpaper-5824409
All times are East Coast .
10:48AM : Three minutes for de - orbit burn .
10:54AM : All system go for de - orbit burn , but it ’s being more than three mo now .
10:55AM : Man , mission control just does n’t have the good luck charm and awesomeness of past . Remember the amazing mission mastery during Apollo ? That looked so badass .
10:57AM : Everything seems to be going fine .
10:58AM : 46 minutes for splashdown . The crew is quick to pick up the Dragon from the ocean .
10:59AM : Two second to go before the burn is completed .
11:02AM : There ’s a guy trifle Angry Birds Space on his iPad in good order next to me .
11:03AM : Dragon is in the right position for legal separation of its luggage compartment , the attached piston chamber that hold the solar panel .
11:04AM : Angry Birds dirt . I ’m playing Galaga .
11:07AM : I get the two starship . The two spaces have dock ! I ’m kicking some serious space vaporize ass .
11:08AM : SpaceX is reporting a grownup green light .
11:09AM : Splash still on schedule . It will be at 11:44AM . That ’s a lot of quarters in Galaga .
11:10AM : Hey blank space nerds , did you acknowledge thatthe transit of Venus is arrive up on June 5 ? That ’s go to kick ass . you could watch it on NASA TV . Or if you are in NYC , you may go to the American Museum of Natural story planetarium to watch it in a vast projection screen , inhabit .
https://gizmodo.com/this-video-of-venus-crossing-the-sun-seems-straight-out-5914295
11:12AM : The bole is now go . Good bye trunk . You be a full lifespan .
11:16AM : Have I ever told you about that time in which I spend one hour talking with Buzz Aldrin ? aside from being a hero , he ’s such a perfect gentleman . And a genius . He was the one to amount with this whole idea of orbital rendezvous . Thanks to him the Dragon was able to do this mission .
11:21AM : Dragon is get near its re - entry point , where it will happen Earth ’s standard atmosphere . It will have a radio blackout from 11:27 to 11:33 . Radio blackouts happen when spaceship re - enrol Earth ’s atmosphere , as the cunning gets ionized .
11:22AM : I ’m glad I have anIon Arcade iCade to play Galaga . This biz is impossible with touchscreen controls .
https://gizmodo.com/the-rad-icade-mobile-icade-for-iphone-and-icade-core-j-5874342
11:23AM : That bearded guy cable on the leftfield is just check his earpiece . Hey bewhiskered guy wire , what are you doing ? follow the consoles ! Say hello to us in Twitter , bearded guy !
11:26AM : Dragon is feeling the effects of the atmosphere . Which means : FIRE.And a trail of blood plasma like this .
https://gizmodo.com/this-photograph-of-the-shuttle-entering-earth-is-simply-5823596
11:27AM : All go upright . raging , but all goodness . Radio amnesia begins , according to commission control .
11:28AM : BEARDED GUY !
11:30AM : Bearded guy does n’t seem very entertained . He ’s have a bad twenty-four hour period . Poor bearded hombre .
11:31AM : SpaceX will remove NASA ’s cargo inside Dragon when it deport in California . NASA will have its stuff within 48 hours . SpaceFedEx .
11:33AM : Dragon has been recognize by a NASA plane , using an IR camera . expert re - entry confirmed .
11:35AM : No chute deployment yet . The cool matter about Dragon is that , in the very near hereafter , it will land with rockets . No parachutes , but rockets on a landing launch area . You have intercourse , like in space movies . That would be pretty amazing to watch .
11:37AM : primary chute deploy . “ That ’s great news ” , says ISS cosmonaut Don Pettit .
11:38AM : All three parachutes are working .
11:40AM : I escape mission dominance ’s bewhiskered guy .
11:41AM : Oh , moderate it out , is SpaceX ’s chief executive officer and founder Elon Musk on the first row , in the middle with the bootleg t - shirt . Hi Elon ! Elon , I trust you are coming to our superspace party at the American Museum of Natural story in July .
11:42AM : Dragon has splashed down ! congratulation SpaceX !
11:43AM : Team is now support the location of Dragon . Once they have the exact GPS data they will relay it to the recovery vessels .
11:49AM : Well , seems that everything is good . Dragon has splatter very close to its target . vessel are get in . All is good . I ’m back to playing Galaga . Congratulations again , Elon and squad !
https://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/6540154?v=3&wmode=direct
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