UPDATE 4: SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Splashes Down

UPDATE 4: SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Splashes Down

UPDATE 4: SPLASHDOWN! Didn’t even take 140 characters for SpaceX to tweet the news! Congratulations!!

UPDATE 3: And now the main chutes as well.

UPDATE 2: SpaceX tweets that the drogue chutes have deployed.

UPDATE: NASA tweeted three minutes ago that the Dragon’s main parachute should deploy in about 20 minutes.

ORIGINAL STORY:

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has fired its descent rockets to reenter Earth’s atmosphere and splash down in the Pacific according to Spaceflightnow.com. Splashdown is expected just after 2:00 pm EST, 500 miles west of Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Follow SpaceX on Twitter (SpaceXer or SpaceXMissions) or follow live coverage on Spaceflightnow.com.

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