It's a good day for a rocket launch.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took flight into a partly cloudy sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday at 7:15 a.m. ET, delivering a secret satellite for a U.S. spy agency to orbit before turning around and heading back to Earth for a picture perfect daylight landing at the Cape.
This marks the fourth time SpaceX has brought one of its Falcon 9 rocket stages back to land on solid ground and the first time Elon Musk's private spaceflight company has launched a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which is responsible for procuring the country's spy satellites. Read more...
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