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SpaceX lands rocket on barge

8 April 2016

SpaceX successfully landed the booster stage of its Falcon 9 rocket today on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Atlantic Ocean. This is the fifth attempt of an at-sea landing by the company and the first to not end with RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly). The Falcon 9 rocket launched the Dragon spacecraft to low Earth orbit to deliver critical cargo to the International Space Station as part of CRS-8.

Fun Fact: SpaceX has named its two floating landing platforms ( Just Read the Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You ) after spaceships from Iain M. Banks’ Culture series.

Source: https://youtu.be/7pUAydjne5M (SpaceX)

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SpaceX lands rocket on barge