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SpaceX Returns To Flight, And Nails Another Drone Landing (cnn.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the final-frontier dept.

Applehu Akbar writes: SpaceX successfully launched a 10-satellite Iridium NEXT package, and then landed on a drone ship — this time from Vandenburg AFB in California. The launch had been delayed several days by this week's record rainfall and flooding.
CNN has video of the launch, and points out its obvious significance. "Because rockets are worth tens of millions of dollars, and they have historically been discarded after launch, mastering the landing is key to making space travel more affordable... Saturday's launch marks the seventh time SpaceX has successfully landed a rocket."

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  1. more CNN fake news by turkeydance · · Score: 3, Funny

    look at the shadows in the video. they're all wrong.

    1. Re:more CNN fake news by jfdavis668 · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's because this was actually filmed in a sound stage on the Moon.

    2. Re:more CNN fake news by cdsparrow · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, they probably faked it from the moon. Takes less fuel and is probably easier in general in the low gravity. Cheaters!!!!