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    Space capsule splashes down 50 miles off Taylor

    Posted on March 21, 2025

    Support teams work around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

    Taylor County had a close encounter with Florida’s growing space industry Tuesday evening when the SpaceX Dragon capsule “Freedom” carrying two U.S. astronauts who had been in space for 286 days landed safely in the Gulf roughly 50 miles off the coast of Steinhatchee and Keaton Beach.

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