NASA called it a "bull's eye" landing.
"There's your new spacecraft, America," Mission Control commentator Rob Navias said as the Orion capsule neared the water.
Navias called the journey "the most perfect flight you could ever imagine."
The scene of a potential deep space crew capsule bobbing in the ocean, four-and-a-half hours after launching from Florida, recalled the last return of astronauts from Apollo moon missions 42 years ago.
Recovery crews immediately began efforts to tow the capsule to a waiting Navy ship, where heat shield inspections will begin and data from 1,200 sensors will be secured on the way back to a San Diego port this weekend.
The $375 million Exploration Flight Test-1 mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station just after sunrise at 7:05 a.m., on the mission's second attemp
NASA called it a "bull's eye" landing.
"There's your new spacecraft, America," Mission Control commentator Rob Navias said as the Orion capsule neared the water.
Navias called the journey "the most perfect flight you could ever imagine."
The scene of a potential deep space crew capsule bobbing in the ocean, four-and-a-half hours after launching from Florida, recalled the last return of astronauts from Apollo moon missions 42 years ago.
Recovery crews immediately began efforts to tow the capsule to a waiting Navy ship, where heat shield inspections will begin and data from 1,200 sensors will be secured on the way back to a San Diego port this weekend.
The $375 million Exploration Flight Test-1 mission blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station just after sunrise at 7:05 a.m., on the mission's second attemp
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