SpaceX makes spectacular ground landing after Dragon launch

[ScienceRocks]

SpaceX makes spectacular ground landing after Dragon launch
July 17, 2016

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SpaceX scored a double success today by sending a Dragon cargo ship into orbit and nailing another ground landing. At 12:45 am EDT, the CRS-9 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, setting an unmanned Dragon cargo ship on course for a rendezvous with the ISS. Shortly afterwards, the first stage Falcon 9 booster flew back to Cape Canaveral, where it landed at Landing Zone 1. This is the second time that the Falcon 9 has managed a landward landing and the first since the Orbcomm 2 mission last December.

How great! I think space-x is deserving of being the group that sends our men back up into space! With the reusable rockets it would be a lot cheaper! I love both public and private sectors.

 

[P@triot]

And the best part is - this is being achieved exclusively in the private sector as it should be. Imagine that Matt...science and constitutional government coexisting just as I said. It can be achieved and Elon Musk is one of many people who have proven as much. The government has no business "investing" in anything.