Wednesday, February 11, 2015

SpaceX

(first of two)

In addition to Tesla Motors, Elon Musk has another super-ambitious project: his privately-owned company with this mission: "to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets."

SpaceX is the first private company to ever return a spacecraft from low-earth orbit (2010), which only governments had done before. In order to make humanity "multi-planetary," vehicles will need to make roundtrips into space - and that's what they're working on.


www.collectspace.com

Today (6 p.m. ET) SpaceX is going to launch a satellite and then make "a second attempt to precision-land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a custom-built ocean platform of the DSCOVR satellite from Florida." You can watch the launch here.

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