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Falcon 9 Iridium 2 Launch/Booster Landing

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  1. spicedriver

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    #1 spicedriver, Jun 25, 2017
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    #2 Fave, Jun 26, 2017
    Incredible !
     
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    #3 Hannibal308, Jun 27, 2017
    Fantastic!
     
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    #4 tazandjan, Jun 27, 2017
    Space-X has now successfully reused one of the recovered 1st stages. Quite a feat. They had a couple of failures before they got barge landings right.
     
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    #5 teak360, Jun 28, 2017
    Whoa! amazing. And I spent the morning mowing the lawn and digging weeds...
     
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    #6 donv, Jun 28, 2017
    They've done it twice, actually. One of the boosters this weekend had been used before, and they reused a booster a month or two ago.

     
  7. spicedriver

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    #7 spicedriver, Jun 28, 2017
    They've reused a capsule as well. Which is pretty amazing seeing how burned up those things get. This should bring the cost of putting stuff into orbit down considerably, I would think.

    https://www.space.com/37072-spacex-first-used-dragon-launch.html
     

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