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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Splashes Down
Space Exploration Technologies aced a practice mission to the International Space Station, completing a nine-day flight of its unmanned Dragon capsule with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday.
Riding beneath a trio of 116-foot wide parachutes, the bell-shaped ship landed about 560 miles west of Baja, California at 11:42 a.m. EDT.
Earlier Thursday, astronauts aboard space station used the 58-foot long Canadian robotic arm to fly Dragon out of the docking slip where it had spent the past six days and release it into space for the quick journey back to Earth.
No, there aren’t lakes in the moon’s craters, but scientists have found evidence that there is water on the moon, overturning longstanding theories that the lunar surface is as dry as a desert.
Columbia University’s Arlin Crotts has gathered data revealing that the Soviets found water in moon rocks during a 1976 voyage, publishing their findings in 1978 in a Russian journal that went unnoticed by the West.
Other trips to the moon, including the Clementine mission in 1994, have suggested that water exists on the moon, but the Soviets’ Luna-24 mission proves there’s even more than scientists thought. […]
Uniting the Planet for a Journey to Another Star
Former astronaut Mae Jemison (and living legend) will spearhead the audacious 100 Year Starship plan to send mankind on an interstellar adventure.
