A new era of spaceflight began today with SpaceX successfully making the first landing of an orbital space booster rocket. At 8:39 pm EST at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida a Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster made a controlled, powered touchdown on land after delivering 11 communications satellites into low Earth orbit for the Orbcomm-2 mission.
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