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SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage appears to have executed a successful water landing (twitter.com/elonmusk)
7 points by api on April 19, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



SpaceX is approaching a successful roundtrip that is more significant, more purposeful than when the first Space Shuttle landed.

Finally we're going to have access to space that is cheap, orders of magnitude cheaper than what we've seen in the last 50 years. On top of that it's done by a business under the guidance of an engineer who made his first fortune with the Internet! Interesting times.


Great news. Hopefully they don't have too much problem with the retrieval as it is apparently pretty rough out there.

Now we need to look forward to the first landing on land. I would love to see this in person.




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