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Raw Video: Dragon Splashes Down in the Pacific

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SpaceX capsule returns with safe landing in Pacific

A space capsule has returned to Earth, ending the first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The capsule was sent by the California-based company SpaceX, the first of 12 missions it will perform for US space agency Nasa.
It landed in the Pacific Ocean west of Mexico at 12:22 local time (19:22 GMT).
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The Dragon space capsule re-entered the earths atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific at 19:22 UTC, 28th October, 2012.

Latitude:  123°W, Longitude: 28°N



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Dragon space capsule heads for Earth

A privately-built spacecraft has begun its journey back to Earth from the International Space Station carrying an unusual cargo.
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SpaceX Dragon Unberthed, Released and Returning

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The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft that delivered about a half-ton of supplies and hardware to the International Space Station is now on its ways back to Earth with more than 13-hundred pounds of scientific and other materials. Dragon is expected to splashdown in the Pacific the same day, Oct. 28.



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NASA TV to Air Live Coverage of Dragon Space Station Departure Sunday

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the release and departure of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station on Sunday, Oct. 28. Coverage will begin at 11:00 UT and conclude approximately three hours later after Dragon has left the vicinity of the orbiting laboratory.
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Live webcast of ISS docking



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Did One of Falcon 9's Engines Explode? Video Shows Debris


This video shows something serious happening to one of the Falcon 9's engines. Engine 1 seems to have suffered a "rapid unscheduled dis-assembly" - i.e., it blew up. The other 8 engines burned longer than planned to put Dragon into orbit. The anomaly occurred at 1 minute and 20 seconds into the flight.
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Dragon launches on historic mission to the ISS

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation's Dragon spacecraft launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket to begin the historic first-ever contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station.



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The Falcon 9 rocket flight was not nominal.

Falcon 9 did not make its second upper stage burn
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