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SpaceX successfully reused a Falcon 9 first stage that first flew 11 months ago, delivering an unmanned Dragon capsule to the Space Station on that initial flight. Then the booster landed on a barge out in the Atlantic.

This time the refurbished booster successfully delivered a communications satellite into orbit, then once again stuck its landing on the barge.

http://www.space.com/36291-spacex-used-r...ccess.html

Maybe the day of reusable space vehicles is really arriving.

(Imagine how expensive airline travel would be if every airliner had to be scrapped after just one flight.)

(Mar 31, 2017 02:43 AM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ][...] Maybe the day of reusable space vehicles is really arriving.(Imagine how expensive airline travel would be if every airliner had to be scrapped after just one flight.)

Took a long time to either catch up or retro-future, but we've almost attained the character of late '40s and '50s Hollywood spaceships.

There's some cool videos of most of SpaceX's attempts to land orbital boosters in this news story. Some successes, some failures. But like CC says, very 1950's Sci-fi'ish.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...con-9.html