It Earned A Ton Of Attention
This was basically a commercial exercise. For some people, this alone should have meant that it would gain a lot of attention. The development came as a total shock for NASA, however. “That was not what we were anticipating,” Jim Bridenstine explained in the briefing that took place after the return of the capsule. “After they landed, the boats just came in.” Until then, the landing looked like it was a success. It is a good thing that the crew did not have any bad experience on the way back down. On top of that, the U.S. Coast Guard had cleared the landing zone with no issue. Go Navigator, the predetermined recovery ship, had already been on the scene within half an hour or so. It was all going to plan until…
It Earned A Ton Of Attention
They Were Taken By Surprise
None of them predicted the number of vessels that flocked the area. Bridenstine went on to admit that they were taken by surprise. “That capsule was in the water for a good amount of time, and those boats just made a beeline for it. There are things that we’re going to look at, that we need to do better at, for sure,” he said. The boats were not the only thing that made things hard for the recovery crew either.
They Were Taken By Surprise
