SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon Re-entry

NASA's Crew-11 Dragon capsule made an early return from the ISS after one of its four astronauts required urgent medical evaluation. The capsule undocked and splashed down in the Pacific near San Diego in under 11 hours, a rapid turnaround for a crew mission. During re-entry in the early morning hours of January 15, the capsule's hypersonic deceleration produced a double sonic boom heard across Southern California. Residents from San Diego to Pasadena, Agoura Hills, and Santa Clarita reported the disturbance, and Google searches for "earthquake" spiked as many Californians mistook the boom for seismic activity.