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SpaceX Splashdown

Marp — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:27:57 GMT

Is being covered by NASA TV on C-SPAN, and is being livestreamed at https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/08/01/crew-dragon-demo-2-return-mission-status-center/

Splashdown scheduled for 2:48.

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50Mickey — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:38:42 GMT

Thanks for the reminder. i just turned on CNN.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:58:29 GMT

Safely down.

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SurferWife — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:03:15 GMT

That was seriously cool! We've been watching it on the news.

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catter70 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:03:43 GMT

I almost missed it. Acccording to the tv's guide, they will rerun in the same time frame for the next couple of days if anyone missed it.

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Karie2022 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:04:41 GMT

Safe and sound, thank goodness

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GCR18 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:05:20 GMT

Glad the weather was perfect and they splashed down safely.

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gardenman — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:14:35 GMT

The private boats in the area flying political flags were kind of funny as they got their camera time. There must be about twenty private boats in the area watching. Space X might to rethink announcing where the capsules will be landing.

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tucsongal — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:26:06 GMT

It cracks me up that they refer to the astronauts as Bob and Doug. I just keep thinking “Bob and Dougs’ Excellent Adventure” lol.

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Icegoddess — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:25:19 GMT

Having watched this sort of thing since childhood, my husband was surprised at the lack of helicopters and frogmen from the days of old. I was equally surprised at all the private boats in the area. That never would've happened back then. You probably would've been arrested if you came within even a mile of a splashdown site or recovery carrier.

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Anonymous032819 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:41:37 GMT

@tucsongal wrote:
It cracks me up that they refer to the astronauts as Bob and Doug. I just keep thinking “Bob and Dougs’ Excellent Adventure” lol.

@tucsongal

Do you mean

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tucsongal — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:54:20 GMT

@Anonymous032819 exactly although I’ve never seen it.

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Nightowlz — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:55:29 GMT

I guess next we will have star wars in space?

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walkingal — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:03:34 GMT

I've been watching. It's so exciting! They're getting ready to exit the capsule now.

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lovesrecess — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:16:55 GMT

They are both giving a thumbs up and will now be going over to the medical area to be checked out. First splash down in 45 years! Quite historic. Glad they are safely home and get to sleep at home tonight. DH's uncle retired from NASA several years ago; he is glued to the TV.

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QVCalm — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 21:00:40 GMT

The Heavens Opened and thank all that made this happen for the United States. However, welcome back to what has
now been referred to as "The American Virus"

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Kachina624 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 22:46:06 GMT

@Icegoddess wrote:
Having watched this sort of thing since childhood, my husband was surprised at the lack of helicopters and frogmen from the days of old. I was equally surprised at all the private boats in the area. That never would've happened back then. You probably would've been arrested if you came within even a mile of a splashdown site or recovery carrier.

@Icegoddess The new freedom is probably due to the fact that it is no longer a military operation. SpaceX is a private corporation.

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Beth-QVC — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 23:34:35 GMT

Political

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Icegoddess — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 01:36:12 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Icegoddess wrote:
Having watched this sort of thing since childhood, my husband was surprised at the lack of helicopters and frogmen from the days of old. I was equally surprised at all the private boats in the area. That never would've happened back then. You probably would've been arrested if you came within even a mile of a splashdown site or recovery carrier.
@Icegoddess The new freedom is probably due to the fact that it is no longer a military operation. SpaceX is a private corporation.

@Kachina624 NASA was never a military operation. It was specifically civilian with an emphasis on peaceful applications of space science. It is, however, a part of the government. But, the launch/operation/landing of Spacex is also not civilian. SpaceX won out to provide the spacecraft but they are in a partnership with NASA where I would bet NASA runs all the space operations. The Astronauts are NASA Astronauts, not Spacex Astronauts. I don't know what the other channels were showing, but the NASA channel was showing NASA Mission Control.

I think it is actually more about WHERE they splashed down along with the more laid back attitudes of people these days. The early missions splashed down in the Pacific Ocean a long ways from land. SpaceX landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola.

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Sammycat1 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 03:27:23 GMT

@Marp

DH and I were glued to the coverage. We're a couple of space program junkies....it really brought us back to Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.

Years ago my brother-in-law got us in through connections in that close viewing area to watch the launch of the space shuttle Endeavor. It may look ordinary on TV but in person but being right there to experience it was absolutely majestic.