SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket that boosted the CRS-3 Dragon spacecraft into orbit made a controlled power landing on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. The historic first controlled landing of a liquid booster was tracked by telemetry and recorded on video. Unfortunately, heavy seas destroyed the rocket before recovery operations could retrieve it... Continue Reading SpaceX confirms successful Falcon 9 soft landing on the Atlantic Ocean
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Tags: Elon Musk, Falcon, Rocket, Spacecraft, SpaceX
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