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Title: SpaceX lands its first stage on ocean barge for the first time
Source:
SpaceX via Twitter
URL Source: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/718542763545899008
Published: Apr 8, 2016
Author: SpaceX
Post Date: 2016-04-08 18:11:32 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 2011
Comments: 5
(1 image) The 1st stage of the Falcon 9 just landed
on our Of Course I Still Love You droneship.
Dragon in good orbit pic.twitter.com/SYyUCDZE3k 
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#1. To: TooConservative (#0)
Great news for private space. That makes two first stages recovered making it more likely that such recovery landings will become routine. Next they have to try a refurbishment of the craft and use it during another sat. launch. That will really bring down the cost of commercial space . SpaceX employees watched from Mission Control in Hawthorne, California, and burst into wild applause as many jumped up and down cheering, “U.S.A., U.S.A.” The Dragon capsule is on it's way to ISS . In the future it will be redesigned for human travel.
That's when the costs for a launch drop dramatically. I would guess that a first-launch rocket will cost the most. And they will price it down for subsequent launches due to increasing risk of aging equipment. The first-launch rockets will be used for human launches and they'll launch satellites with the reused rockets.
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#4. To: tomder55 (#1)
Next they have to try a refurbishment of the craft and use it during another sat. launch. That will really bring down the cost of commercial space .
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