SpaceX: Test Flight and a Lawsuit

SpaceX, the private spaceflight company, has been testing a series of vertical takeoff and landing rockets for a while now. The first was Grasshopper, which was cool. They've now moved up to the F9R Dev, the Falcon 9 Reusable Development Vehicle, which is a Falcon 9 first stage booster with deployable landing legs attached. They just ran a test of the F9R where it lifted to a height of 1000 meters -- one kilometer, or 0.6 miles. The video of this is pretty amazing. I love the cows. This flight ...