Musk: "Welcome Home, Baby" as Dragon Mission Ends

As Elon Musk's Dragon spacecraft successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean this morning, he was thinking "welcome home, baby" as the mission came to a picture perfect ending.
International Space Station (ISS) astronauts using the robotic Canadarm2 detached Dragon from the ISS Harmony module at 4:05 am Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). They released Dragon from Canadarm2 at 5:49 am EDT, a few minutes later than planned. The spacecraft then performed a series of engine firings that put it on course for landing in the Pacific Ocean about 490 nautical miles southwest of Los Angeles. It landed at 27 degrees North latitude, 120 degrees West longitude two minutes ahead of schedule at 11:42 am ET.

Photo credit: SpaceX: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/208264591887712257/photo/1
During a post-landing news conference, Musk said the difference in landing times was due to the wind. Dragon uses two drogue chutes and then three main chutes to slow its landing speed. Musk emphasized his plans for future versions of Dragon to return to land instead of water, using propulsive landing systems. He also stressed that this version of Dragon is capable of taking crews to and from the ISS, although launch abort systems and additional successful launches ...