CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — For the second month in a row, the aerospace upstart SpaceX landed a rocket on an ocean platform early Friday, this time following the successful launch of a Japanese communications satellite.A live web broadcast showed the first-stage booster touching down vertically in the pre-dawn darkness atop a barge in the Atlantic, just off the Florida coast.
Spacex Lands Rocket At Sea 2nd Time After Satellite Launch
By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer, The Providence Journal
Fri, 05/06/2016 - 6:48am
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