When SpaceX made the first ever “land landing” of their Falcon 9 rocket booster on Monday night, social media was flooded with footage of the event and with congratulations to Elon Musk and his entire team.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015. It marked a pivotal reversal of fortunes for privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, which was founded by high-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Those rockets require much more power, and are more hard to land safely based partly on their greater size. The next step comes in 2017, when SpaceX rockets will deliver astronauts to the ISS.
Musk, who is also CEO of Tesla, suggested that SpaceX had already achieved what Blue Origin did that day, even though the SpaceX flights he was referring to never came close to reaching outer space.
SpaceX’s rocket deployed 11 satellites for telecommunications company ORBCOMM of Fort Lee, N.J. after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The broad concept is the same as it was for the Space Shuttle: If you want to make space travel cost-effective, the vehicle needs to be reusable.
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On Monday night, local time, the upgraded 23-storey-tall rocket took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the main stage returning about 10 minutes later to a landing site about 9.65km south of the launch pad.
