SpaceX Successfully Lands Falcon 9 Rocket On Solid Ground For the Second Time (theverge.com)

SpaceX successfully landed another Falcon 9 rocket after launching the vehicle into space on Sunday evening from Florida. The Verge reports: Shortly after takeoff, the vehicle touched down at SpaceX's Landing Complex 1 -- a ground-based landing site that the company leases at the Cape. It marks the second time SpaceX has pulled off this type of ground landing, and the fifth time SpaceX has recovered one of its rockets post-launch. The feat was accomplished a few minutes before the rocket's second stage successfully put the company's Dragon spacecraft into orbit, where it will rendezvous with the International Space Station later this week. It's also the first time this year SpaceX has attempted to land one of its rockets on land. For the past six launches, each rocket has tried landing on an autonomous drone ship floating in the ocean. That's because drone ship landings require a lot less fuel to execute than ground landings.

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Space Adapters

[burhop]

One of the interesting things in this trip are a couple of Space adapters that will let Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, SpaceX's Crew Dragon
spacecraft, and anyone else that comes along to dock to the station.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7...

No word yet on if Apple will follow this standard or come up with their own.

The logical next step

[93 Escort Wagon]

Attempt to land the Falcon rocket on a white 18-wheeler.