SpaceX could do something amazing on Saturday.
The Elon Musk-founded private spaceflight company is planning to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a refurbished, uncrewed Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, and then land the first stage of the rocket back on solid ground.
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If successful, this will mark the first time SpaceX has reused one of its capsules. The re-flight will also propel the company into an exclusive club.
“NASA’s space shuttle orbiters, the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B, and the Soviet Union’s VA spacecraft were all reused on orbital missions,” Robert Pearlman, space historian and founder of collectspace.com, said. Read more…
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