CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An unmanned space capsule carrying medical samples from the international space station splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, completing the first official private interstellar shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA.
The California-based SpaceX company gently guided the Dragon into the water via parachutes at 12:22 p.m., a couple hundred miles off the Baja California coast.
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Not to be picky, but this flight, while historic and cool was certainly not "interstellar" as it was from earth to the ISS, not to a neighboring star. Merriam-Webster online defines interstellar as "located, taking place, or traveling among the stars especially of the Milky Way galaxy".
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