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After four failed attempts at sea, SpaceX shows it can stick an ocean landing as well as one on solid ground.
On Saturday morning, CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted out that the rocket had a clean launch at 11:18 am ET, and a “perfect booster landing.”
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Next up: Tests to see how his body changed in microgravity.
Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman honored for developing the first instance of public-key cryptography.
Delays forced a flight-path change and a difficult landing attempt on a platform at sea.
The VSS Unity will replace Virgin Galactic’s former SpaceShipTwo plane, which crashed during a test flight in 2014.
Ripples from the explosive merger of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago.
And China is leading the charge.
The next launch will use the last of the older-version Falcon 9 rockets.