Well done to the SpaceX team … what an achievement! Landing a plane is hard enough, but landing a rocket … upright?!? Wow! I wonder how many NASA scientists SpaceX stole 😉 I would live to see a “manned” space flight from SpaceX one day …
“US company SpaceX has successfully landed an unmanned rocket upright, after sending 11 satellites into orbit. The Falcon-9 craft touched down late on Monday night, about 10km from its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
It is not the first spacecraft to land a booster vertically; that feat was claimed by the much smaller New Shepard rocket in Texas last month. Nonetheless the Falcon-9 flight, which also went twice as high as New Shepard, is a milestone towards reusing rockets.
SpaceX aims to slash the cost of private space operations with such reusable components – but the company has not launched a rocket since one exploded in June.”
Source: BBC
