Bad Astronomy -
10 Jan 2015 18:24
The good news is that this morning, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon capsule on board. It's headed to the space station, loaded with over 2.5 tons of supplies. The not-quite-as-good news is that the attempt to land the first stage booster on a floating barge wasn't 100 percent successful. It found the barge and was able to land on it, but had too high a velocity at touchdown, so it crashed. I'll note that a lot of venues are playing up the fact that it was a "failure"...
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