Tonight , SpaceX successfully sent a first - stage booster to space , and then landed it vertically min by and by . It ’s a proof of construct that is conjecture to make blank space crummy by recycle components , but this booster is destine to never vaporize again .
On apress call sooner tonight , Musk said “ I think we ’ll probably keep this one on the ground , just [ because ] it ’s kind of alone , it ’s the first one we ’ve bring back . ”
This is n’t quite the end of the route for Falcon 9 , though — after transport back to SpaceX ’s pad at Canaveral , it will be tie down with suitably gargantuan Ernst Boris Chain and raise on land to verify that everything would form , if it needed to .
[ The Verge ]
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