SpaceX closed out the weekend with the Starlink 6-54 mission launch from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Not pictured: a Cargo Dragon spacecraft that undocked from the ISS earlier in the day that is making its way back for a splashdown off the coast of Florida
It looks a bit different when not deployed, but this is one of the three main parachutes used during Apollo 16's splashdown in 1972. A few years later, NASA transferred the parachute to our Museum.
May 2, 1917. Today is the birthday of Will Kuluva (1917-1990), who played the Professor and Submarine Commander in the original Jonny Quest series 'Arctic Splashdown' and Chu Sing Ling in 'Terror Island'.
The Apollo 16 Command Module carrying Young, Duke and Mattingly splashes down in the central Pacific Ocean where they are picked up by the USS Ticonderoga
