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Elizabeth Howell

SpaceX moving Crew Dragon splashdowns to West Coast after multiple space debris incidents

A cone-shaped spacecraft splashes down into open sea under three parachutes.

The next space station astronaut crew may be the last to splash down in the ocean nearby the U.S. east coast.

The Crew Dragon Crew-9 mission with astronauts is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than Aug. 18, perhaps becoming the final NASA-led ISS mission to arrive in the Atlantic Ocean aboard Crew Dragon.

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