whelp here's the "NASA PR0VES E4RTH IS FL/-\T!" photo that the nutters'll be using for the next 10 years

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LORGE

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oh that night that john p murtha died is a night i'll never forget

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just under a minute to separation

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POW

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expecting to hear "THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS" during the blackout period

keep an eye out for green circles of light

here we goooooooo

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comms blackout

goddammit mariner

visual identification confirmed from air assets

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Voice comms restored with Integrity, projection nominal

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long range

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drouge chutes deployed

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main chutes deployed

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Splashdown confirmed. Integrity stable in the water at 7:07.47 pm NASA (Central) time, mission duration 9 days 1 hour 31 minutes 35 seconds unofficial.

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ffft, stupid satphones don't work for astronauts either

can't even leave voicemail, not that anybody checks voicemail

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NASA's going to try to call the astronauts' phones, see if that works better

I'm not even making this up

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i mean it's not like they don't know where they are, worst case they can just pop over and knock

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nobody mentioned bedazzling the outside of the hull

guess that's what they got up to on the far side

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"Refined" splashdown and mission duration times:

Splashdown: 7:07.27 pm NASA (Central) time

Mission duration: 9 days, 1 hour, 32 minutes, 15 seconds.

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Capsule is on full shutdown, doing gas safety checks. Still waiting for the "front porch" inflatable.

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BOAT

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y'know this _really did_ look like a Gerry and Sylvia Anderson "UFO" TV series UFO as it came in

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KNOCK KNOCK

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Hatch is open!

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open hatch

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kinda me waiting for them to hurry up with the front porch

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"stabilisation collar"

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oh once it's inflated you can stand on it, it's like a tiny deck

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I HUNGER

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crew members going onto the porch, finally

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all four crew off the ship and onto the smaller floaty ship

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THERE we go, some good picture

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_starting_ to relax

last time i watched one of these things live (where it really was _live_ live and not a Soyuz drop in Asia) it ended up in a debris field across Texas so _I have been nervous_

but this one worked right

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the helicoper blowdown on the surface is really pretty

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