Have trouble threading needles? Getting into a parking spot? SpaceX doesn’t want you. Via Space.com we learn that SpaceX plans to test it’s ocean-based landing system (AKA “landing a spaceship on a boat”) this coming week:
“During the Dec. 16 launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, which will send SpaceX’s robotic Dragon capsule toward the orbiting lab, the California-based company will try to bring the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth for a controlled landing on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
“The bold maneuver marks a big step forward in SpaceX’s development of reusable-rocket technology, which the company’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, says could eventually cut the cost of spaceflight by a factor of 100 and perhaps make Mars colonization economically feasible.”
Read the whole story here, with exclusive video: SpaceX Will Try to Land Rocket on Floating Ocean Platform Next Week
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