SpaceX Dragon begins return to Earth

Elon Musk just announced on twitter that the SpaceX team has gotten two of the Dragon Capsule's thrusters working, enough to get the capsule back under active control. Pods 1 and 4 now online and thrusters engaged. Dragon transitioned from free drift to active control. Yes!!

The Dragon capsule is recovered after splashing down in the Pacific.

The private Hawthorne firm's Dragon capsule is set to end its space station mission with a splashdown Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean hundreds of miles west of Southern California.SpaceX's Dragon space capsule, which last week became the world's first privately built and operated spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station, is scheduled to return to Earth on Thursday morning.

After thruster issues after launch on Friday, the SpaceX Dragon capsule containing cargo bound for the International Space Station had to miss this morning's planned docking with the space station. The issues were resolved around 4:30 EST on Friday.

Next month, SpaceX's Dragon capsule will dock with the International Space Station. This will be a historic moment for space travel.

After thruster malfunctions following launch this morning, the Dragon Capsule has been forced to cancel tomorrow's planned rendezvous with the ISS. That's according to several people on twitter, including Dan Leone from Space News, and SpaceflightNow, who were listening to the feed from mission control:

LOS ANGELES — Two mammoth rocket engines that helped boost Apollo astronauts to the moon have been fished out of the Atlantic. An expedition led by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pulled up the engines and is headed back to Cape Canaveral, Florida, after three weeks at sea. Bezos and NASA announced the recovery on Wednesday.