Posted on 03/18/2025 6:58:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A very Florida welcome home for NASA and SpaceX's Crew-9. Some curious dolphins seemingly wanted to give a personal "welcome home" to the Crew-9 astronauts, moments after they splashed down off the coast of Florida on Tuesday afternoon.
As the rescue teams surrounded SpaceX's Dragon capsule with NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov inside, a small pod of dolphins was seen swimming around the area. You can watch that moment in the video player above.
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They were disappointed it wasn’t a big fish.
I’m old enough to remember watching Flipper.
I’ve seen a pod of swimmimg them off Virginia Beach.
I love dolphins.
Good juju.
The presence of dolphins was to me quite funny.
They were curious about all the hubbub. They, at least 4 or 5, came to check it all out. They were careful to get close enough to observe but far enough out not to be a menace.
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