Fifth time's the charm: SpaceX finally lands on its drone ship in the ocean
 

Fifth time's the charm: SpaceX finally lands on its drone ship in the ocean
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SpaceX did it.*

On Friday, after four near-misses, the private spaceflight company managed to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

"Fifth time's the charm," one of the company's webcast hosts said during the SpaceX webcast of the launch and landing.

The webcast showed a beautiful image of the stage landing as the crowd in mission control celebrated.

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This isn't the last time SpaceX will try to land their rocket on a barge.*

"The next two or three flights are going to be drone ship landings — there's ** choice there, because we can't get to land," Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX's vice president of flight reliability, said during a press conference ahead of the Dragon launch. Read more...


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