Watch SpaceX Attempt a Record-Breaking Rocket Landing in the Pacific Ocean

Watch SpaceX Attempt a Record-Breaking Rocket Landing in the Pacific Ocean
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  • A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has flown and landed on a drone ship floating in the ocean three times, a first for Elon Musk’s aerospace company, as it carried out a mission that’s newsworthy in its own right.
  • That dirty rocket first flew in May 2018 for the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 mission , and then again in August 2018 for the Merah Putih satellite mission , before going to space and back on Monday.
  • This photo of the Falcon 9 that went to space and back on December 3, 2018 shows the soot it's accumulated during its two previous missions in 2018.
  • The Nevada Museum of Art and Global Western backed the first, a project created by the privacy-obsessed Trevor Paglen named Orbital Reflector .
  • This time, due to the launch of a national security mission back at Vandenberg Air Force Base, SpaceX is opting for the latter, aiming to land on the Just Read The Instructions drone ship on the Pacific Ocean.


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