12 tweets that best define SpaceX’s awesome rocket landing

SpaceX successfully landed its powerful Falcon 9 rocket Monday for the first time, a major milestone in the drive to cut costs and waste by making rockets as reusable as airplanes.

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A rocket flying toward the ground is usually a bad sign, but for aerospace company SpaceX, it was a huge success.

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The latest rocket launched by SpaceX named Falcon 9 v1.

The difference between the two rockets was aptly described in one image. The mission was also the first time SpaceX has successfully landed a rocket after sending it into space.

Last month, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos saw his space company, Blue Origin, safely land a first stage rocket that propelled a payload into space, but not into orbit.

Though many may argue this has been done before – when Blue Origin landed its rocket on November 25 – they are two separate beasts.

“Congratulations @SpaceX on your successful vertical landing of the first stage back on Earth!”

“All 11 ORBCOMM satellites have been deployed in nominal orbits”.

Many rockets use multiple stages, or engine sets, to reduce weight during launch. The rocket was carrying $110 million worth of supplies for NASA to the International Space Station.

Before Monday’s launch, weather and some other issues delayed the launch and lading attempt, but SpaceX launched Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Monday evening without a hitch. But the SpaceX feat, which the company had characterised before launch as a “secondary test objective”, was achieved during an actual commercial mission.

The company’s Falcon 9 rocket failed during a resupply mission to the ISS.

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SpaceX employees cheered as they watched live video footage of the 47.5-meter-tall white first-stage booster slowly descending upright through a damp, darkened night sky to make a picture-perfect landing.