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SpaceX Falcon 9 Has First Successful Barge Landing

posted by takyon on Saturday April 09 2016, @10:00AM   
from the touchdown dept.

FrogBlast writes:

SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster for the Dragon spacecraft has successfully landed on a barge for the first time. The experimental landing was not the primary goal of the mission, which is taking supplies and experiments (including the Bigelow inflatable module) to the International Space Station. Ars Technica covered the launch, and a live stream was available on YouTube.

Ars Technica . YouTube Stream. Ars Technica's story about the Bigelow module, for the curious.

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• wow! a barge!wow! a barge! (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 09 2016, @10:07AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 09 2016, @10:07AM (#329349)

  A barge. You know what would be more impressive?

  (1) escaping earth orbit, or
  (2) diving to the bottom of the ocean

  If it can't do (1) or (2) then it's still surface-to-orbit, and that's just bullshit.

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• AWEsome because Elon MUSK(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 09 2016, @10:11AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 09 2016, @10:11AM (#329350)

  u jealous cuz you knOW you want TO SUCK elon's mUsky cock!!1

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• Re:wow! a barge!(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 09 2016, @11:09AM

  by khallow (3766) on Saturday April 09 2016, @11:09AM (#329356) Journal

  If they can do it in Space Battleship Yamato, then why can't they do it in real life?

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