SpaceX did it.
For the first time in its history, the Elon Musk-founded spaceflight company has relaunched a previously flown Falcon 9 booster.
Oh, and they landed it back on Earth again.
This rocket, which flew a payload to orbit in April 2016 for its first flight, launched at 6:37 p.m. ET, coming back in for its second landing on a drone ship in the ocean about 8.5 minutes later. This was the ninth successful rocket landing for SpaceX.
We still need to wait and see if the communications satellite successfully deploys before we know if this mission went off without a hitch, but right now, things are looking good. Read more...
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