STUCK ASTRONAUTS RETURN TO EARTH

How Subsidiarity Got Astronauts Home and Gets the Mail Delivered

Like many Americans, my heart swelled with pride as I watched the astronauts land safely in the Gulf of America. The SpaceX rescue of the stranded astronauts ended wonderfully, but it also highlighted an important lesson: why a relatively small company was able to succeed where a governmental bureaucracy (NASA) and its go-to military-industrial-complex contractor (Boeing) could not. Source

STUCK ASTRONAUTS RETURN TO EARTH

A support team member works on a SpaceX capsule shortly after it landed Tuesday with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Russia’s Alexander Gorbunov aboard off the coast of Tallahassee, Fla., as a dolphin swims past.…

Pols tapped to cheer up astronauts stranded at space station

Like people all over the world, Jan and Diane Pol watched with bated breath last week as three astronauts and a cosmonaut returned to Earth from the International Space Station. Unlike others watching the splashdown off the coast of Tallahassee, Fla., veterinarian Jan Pol and his wife, Pol Veterinary Services Office Manager Diane Pol, celebrated their return after nine months in space with a more personal connection. After launching in June on a…

#TheMoment dolphins greeted the capsule returning astronauts to Earth

Marine mammal expert Ashley Noseworthy recounts the moment a pod of dolphins greeted the SpaceX capsule carrying NASA astronauts returning from nine months stuck in space.

Dolphins Surround SpaceX Capsule After Ocean Splashdown as NASA Astronauts Return to Earth: Watch!

Dolphins surrounded the SpaceX capsule after it landed in the ocean on the NASA astronauts' successful journey home after nine months in space on Tuesday, March 18.

Dolphins Spectate NASA Stranded Astronaut Splashdown

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth after nine months stranded in space and were greeted by a pod of dolphins.