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Successful Launch and Landing Boosts SpaceX’s Reusability Confidence

Monday, April 25th, 2016

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Space Exploration Technology Corp.'s (SpaceX) success in launching and landing a Falcon 9 rocket is elevating the company’s confidence that it will recover more boosters going forward.SpaceX is now planning a test campaign around the recovered first stage with intentions of flying it again on a commercial mission later in 2016. The April 8 Commercial Resupply Services 8 (CRS-8) mission for NASA sent the Dragon spacecraft with 7,000 pounds of cargo, including the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), on its…

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