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[Anonymous032819]

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@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. 

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@tucsongal 

Do you mean

[tucsongal]

@Anonymous032819 exactly although I’ve never seen it.

[Nightowlz]

I guess next we will have star wars in space?

[walkingal]

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

[lovesrecess]

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.

[QVCalm]

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"

[Kachina624]

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@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.  

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

[Icegoddess]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@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.  

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@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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@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.

[Sammycat1]

@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.