Florida fisherman catches parachutes and capsule door from SpaceX crew capsule


Last week, charter fishing boat captain David Stokes was fishing off the Daytona Beach coast when he reeled in a capsule door and two parachutes that were part of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. On January 19, SpaceX conducted a successful in-flight abort test of their Crew Dragon that involved exploding the Falcon 9 rocket and releasing the capsule to carry the crew to safety. From UPI:


Stokes said he has attempted to contact SpaceX and tagged Elon Musk in a tweet about the discovery in the hopes of bringing it to their attention.


"I'd like for SpaceX to come check it out to see what they think about it … any damage to it," Stokes told WKMG-TV. "It would also be awesome to have Elon Musk autograph it."