Nightly News | May 31, 2012
SpaceX splashdown
The first privately-owned spacecraft to visit the International Space Station returned to Earth Thursday morning. NBC’s Matt Lauer reports.
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This content comes from Closed Captioning that was broadcast along with this program.
>> there was a safe splashdown today in the pacific. spacex dragon , the first privately owned spacecraft to visit the space station returned to earth this morning, splashing down west of los angeles , after delivering a half ton of food and clothing to the crew aboard the space station and loading up with half a ton of cargo and experiments to bring back. the successful mission is good news for nasa which is relying on companies like spacex to do the heavy lifting.