On May 31, while the Dragon made its way back home from its history-making rendezvous with the International Space Station, a P-3 Orion Glance aircraft kept watch. The plane captured a record of the capsule’s reentry, parachute deployment, and landing in the Pacific Ocean.
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![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)



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