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Splashdown. so to make sense of this historic moment, i want to bring in cnn's space and defense correspondent, kristin fisher. and we have special guest tonight, former nasa restaurant, mike massimino. he is "the new york times" best-selling author "spaceman: an astronaut's unlikely journey to unlock the secrets of the universe." kristen, what a momentous moment. what did we just see? >> pam, you could hear the sonic boom here at cape canaveral as the dragon capsule and the inspiration 4 crew made its way through the atmosphere, before splashing down just off the coast of florida. sorry, we'v...

They splashed down, there was a huge crowd of boats just -- i mean, fishermen, people just out for a good time. people who heard that this is where they were going to splashdown. and they came to watch it and so there was literally like a semicircle of boats, just watching it. and it can be, you know, kind of dangerous. there could be potentially some toxic fumes being emitted from the spate kraft after its splashes down. so this time around, it appears spacex has taken a few more precautions and we even heard them on the webcast before sp splashdown saying, hey, in you're watching this, don't...

Back towards earth. again, targeting a landing -- excuse me, a splashdown off the coast of florida in the atlantic ocean. >> copy, 600. >> 400. >> copy, 400. >> 200.

You can see that on your left-hand screen of the camera, looking forward above the dragon capsule, looking at those four main chutes. >> 1,000. >> copy, 1,000. >> the next event coming up now is a visual confirmation of splashdown. you can see the dragon capsule on your right-hand screen slowly coming down now. we talked about how fast the vehicle has been traveling, but they will be touching down approximately 15 miles per hour when they touch the atlantic ocean there. >> copy, 800. >> now, the dragon 1 program had great success with the water landing with 20 successful splashdowns of the cou...