SpaceX Launches Recycled Rocket

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    • Publish Date: Dec 17 2017 3:53PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 17 2017 3:57PM
SpaceX Launches Recycled Rocket

SpaceX racked up another first, launching a recycled rocket with a recycled capsule on a grocery run for NASA.

The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off with a just-in-time-for-Christmas delivery for the International Space Station, taking flight again after a six-month turnaround. On board was a Dragon supply ship, also a second-time flier.

It was NASA's first use of a reused Falcon rocket and only the second of a previously flown Dragon.

The Dragon reaches the space station Sunday. The capsule last visited the 250-mile-high outpost in 2015.

Ven Feng, a NASA manager, said he had "a little sense of deja vu" watching Friday's launch and landing of the same rocket he saw take off and return in June.

"Quite an achievement," he said.


For the past two years, the private SpaceX has been salvaging as much as possible from rockets following liftoff. Rather than letting first-stage boosters sink in the Atlantic, as other orbital rocket makers do, SpaceX flies them back to Cape Canaveral for vertical touchdowns or, when extra rocket power is needed to propel a satellite extra high, to a floating ocean platform.

Reusability is the future for spaceflight, according to NASA's station program manager Kirk Shireman.

NASA flew its first reused capsule back in June. But managers waited until SpaceX had three rocket reflights under its belt, before putting NASA's station equipment and experiments on a secondhand Falcon. After extensive reviews, the risk of flying a reused rocket, versus a brand new one, was judged to be pretty much equal, he said.

Jessica Jensen, a SpaceX manager, said the company aims to reuse rockets — and capsules — far more than twice. The only way to get thousands of people into space — the ultimate goal of Musk — is by drastically cutting launch costs, she said.

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SRUTI MISHRA HIRENDRA LEELA PATRANAVIS SCHOOL

REUSING ROCKETS AND CAPSULES IS A GREAT IDEA SINCE IT SAVES BOTH TIME AND MONEY AS WELL AS IT IS CAPABLE OF FULFILLING OUR DREAM OF GOING TO SPACE......

Kanakdeep Kaur Sohal The Orbis School

A very good idea of going to space as well as saving the environment

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