SpaceX reusable booster rocket nails safe landing in spaceflight first

The satellites will provide machine to machine communication for Internet of Things applications on Earth. This is the first time that an unmanned rocket has landed back vertically on earth. The images with people and cars nearby really show how huge the Falcon 9 first stage is.

During an exciting 20-minute launch, landing, and satellite deployment, the gathered crowd at mission control cheered at every successful stage of the mission.

“The Falcon 9 rocket we are about to launch has higher performance than the prior version due mostly to increased boost thrust, deep cryo oxidizer and a much larger upper stage engine bell”. With the successful landing, SpaceX is closer to making space travel cheaper since the first stage of the rocket can now be refitted and reused for a future mission.

This was SpaceX’s first launch in six months, as the previous one exploded shortly after launch while carrying supplies to the International Space Station in June.

Elon Musk blurted out a background post explaining in detail what just happened and how hard it is to control the enormous kinetic power. While SpaceX’s famous founder Elon Musk is typically the focus of conversations surrounding the company, many more men and women are involved with the company’s endeavors. It was designed and manufactured by US Space Company SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit.

On Monday, SpaceX made history after it landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back at Cape Canaveral.

He later told journalists “No one has ever brought a booster, an orbital-class booster, back intact”.

But Musk, who is also CEO for the electric vehicle company Tesla, has not taken his eyes off his ultimate goal: a human mission to Mars.