SpaceX's beautiful rocket launch and landing just made history

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We really should be used to this by now, but it's just too cool. 

SpaceX has landed its fifth Falcon 9 rocket booster back on land after launching a spacecraft to orbit for NASA.

The landing — which took place at Cape Canaveral — came about 10 minutes after the Elon Musk-founded spaceflight company launched a Dragon spacecraft toward the International Space Station at 5:07 p.m. ET. 

This wasn't just any old Dragon, however. The capsule is actually a refurbished spacecraft that first launched to the Space Station in 2014. Since it came back to Earth, SpaceX has been getting it ready for this next flight.  Read more...

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via Zero Tech Blog

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