The craft, an American Falcon-9 SpaceX rocket, was carrying supplies of food and equipment to the astronauts on the space station.
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The Falcon 9 rocket reached a height of 125 miles before heading back to earth and touching down at a former US Air Force rocket and missile testing range that was last used in 1978. However while the rocket did land successfully, Musk said it would not fly again – first it will undergo tests to see in what shape the landing left it and if a second takeoff is conceivable.
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It was a completely upgraded version of the 23 storey tall Falcon 9 rocket that blasted off in a flawless launch from the Cape Canaveral Airforce Base in Florida. It landed at Landing Zone 1, a former launch complex for Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles that SpaceX leased.
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Previous attempts at a landing had been on an ocean platform.
Blue Origin, which is headed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, achieved a safe rocket landing after a launch on November 24 – but SpaceX employees were quick to remind viewers during a livestream Monday that this was a more hard feat. But the return landings of rockets could dramatically cut costs of space missions.
After deploying the OG2 satellites in a low-Earth orbit, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket landed back to the ground.
As the heads of the two firms trade barbs, a new, privately-funded space race seems to be developing as companies rush to corner both the market for satellite launches and eventually manned commercial flights.
Creating a reusable rocket has been a major goal for SpaceX, and one it’s struggled with.
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SpaceX is run by Elon Musk – the billionaire founder of Tesla electric cars. “No one has ever brought an orbital class booster back intact”. Blue Origin’s success proved that it is possible to land a rocket successfully back on earth.
