SpaceX Launches Satellite with Used Booster

[Yazata]

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.)

[C C]

[...] 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.

[Yazata]

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