SpaceX's Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:42 a.m. EDT a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico, marking a successful end to the first mission by a commercial company to resupply the International Space Station.
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Dragon Capsule Performs Deorbit Burn
The SpaceX Dragon capsule initiated its 9-minute, 50-second deorbit burn at 10:51 a.m. EDT to decelerate the spacecraft and begin its return to Earth. NASA TV will provide live commentary and coverage of the capsule's reentry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, scheduled for 11:44 a.m.: www.nasa.gov/ntv. A news briefing will be held jointly from Johnson and SpaceX in Hawthorne, Calif., at 2 p.m. live on NASA TV.
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