SpaceX Brings 4 Astronauts Home With Midnight Splashdown (npr.org) 17
SpaceX brought four astronauts home with a midnight splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, capping the busiest month yet for Elon Musk's taxi service. From a report: The three U.S. astronauts and one German in the capsule were bobbing off the Florida coast, near Tampa, less than 24 hours after leaving the International Space Station. NASA expected to have them back in Houston later in the morning. NASA's Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, and the European Space Agency's Matthias Maurer, embraced the seven astronauts remaining at the station, before parting ways. "It's the end of a six-month mission, but I think the space dream lives on," Maurer said. SpaceX brought up their U.S. and Italian replacements last week, after completing a charter trip to the station for a trio of businessmen.
Re: Zee Germans (Score:3)
"MIDNIGHT SPLASHDOWN" (Score:2)
Dammit Elon, how could you miss "Operation MIDNIGHT SPLASHDOWN", it was right in front of you.
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Certainly, the Russian avant-garde of 1915 was overly obsessed with geometric abstraction while ignoring the massive political forces building up around them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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but the differences is that Americans actually know about their shortcomings
Canadian here.
I see very little evidence of this.
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US American here.
I see no evidence that we 'Muricans have shortcomings. We're practically perfect in every way.
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The USA, Russia, and China have all put people in space, but Europeans still haven't figured it out yet
We're too busy doing real science instead of just dick waving publicity stunts.
Phew! (Score:2)
I'm glad the brooms held up!
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Well that's one way to do it. (Score:3)