splashdown

It also includes the procedure for retrieving the capsule and its crew and cargo after splashdown.

As with a handful of previous missions that have experimented with first-stage reuse, the Electron booster made a controlled splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

The company has been implementing a new atmospheric reentry and ocean splashdown process that uses a parachute to slow the booster’s descent, but the ultimate goal is to catch it in the air using a helicopter.

SpaceX said that the flight “will be carefully monitored at every step by SpaceX mission control” and will end in a splashdown off the Florida coast.

Marci jumped a foot out of the water, and her splashdown sent watery ripples rebounding off the cavern walls.