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02-08-2018, 04:13 AM
What SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch means for the future of spaceflight
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SpaceX had a pretty big day on Tuesday.*
The Elon Musk-founded company successfully launched its maiden flight of the huge Falcon Heavy rocket and landed two of its three main boosters back on Earth after sending a Tesla Roadster to space.*
With this launch, SpaceX and Musk effectively made a long-shot rocket dream come true before our eyes and made good on a promise made more than five years ago.
SEE ALSO: Watching SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch to space was like seeing into the future (https://mashable.com/2018/02/06/what-it-was-like-witness-falcon-heavy-spacex-launch/)
"We tried to cancel the Falcon Heavy program three times at SpaceX," Musk said during a briefing after the launch. The technical challenges associated with building the rocket were much worse than the company initially bargained for, but none-the-less, Musk and his team pulled through.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/07/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-whats-next/)
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SpaceX had a pretty big day on Tuesday.*
The Elon Musk-founded company successfully launched its maiden flight of the huge Falcon Heavy rocket and landed two of its three main boosters back on Earth after sending a Tesla Roadster to space.*
With this launch, SpaceX and Musk effectively made a long-shot rocket dream come true before our eyes and made good on a promise made more than five years ago.
SEE ALSO: Watching SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch to space was like seeing into the future (https://mashable.com/2018/02/06/what-it-was-like-witness-falcon-heavy-spacex-launch/)
"We tried to cancel the Falcon Heavy program three times at SpaceX," Musk said during a briefing after the launch. The technical challenges associated with building the rocket were much worse than the company initially bargained for, but none-the-less, Musk and his team pulled through.* Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/02/07/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-whats-next/)
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