Yet believe it Musk must, because SpaceX accomplished the rocket landing during a live webcast. About 10 minutes after the launch, the rocket successfully landed vertically on a landing pad – the first time a rocket has been successfully recovered. Previous attempts by SpaceX to land Falcon 9 boosters had failed.
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Rival company Blue Origin, a space start-up founded by Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos, nailed a similar return rocket landing test last month.
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It’s an almost-Christmas miracle: SpaceX on Monday returned the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket to Earth with a soft touchdown. Welcome to the club! The 11 satellites launched via Falcon 9 yesterday join an existing 31 already in orbit, including six that Falcon 9 launched in 2014. The first stage of the rocket then fired three “boostback burns” to realign with the Earth and make its way back to the landing pad. Compare that to a commercial airliner-each new plane costs about the same as Falcon 9, but can fly multiple times per day, and conduct tens of thousands of flights over its lifetime. Now that SpaceX has launched and landed a rocket, Musk says the company is planning to launch a rocket, land it, and launch it again “sometime next year”. And in an excerpt from last night’s mission footage pulled out of the stream by The Verge, we can see many of these men and women react to the Falcon 9’s historic landing.
It is a well-known fact that till now rockets worth millions get lost in space after the delivery of payload.
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Elon Musk and his SpaceX team have edged closer to making space travel more affordable after successfully launching and returning a rocket to Earth.
