Space station crew closes out 8-month mission with picture-perfect Pacific Ocean splashdown
Crew 12 dropped out of orbit and returned to Earth on Thursday, one day after undocking from the International Space Station, in a meteor-like fireball of concentrated reentry heat, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean west of Los Angeles to close out a 237-day mission. Commander Jessica Meir, pilot Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency…