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Because failure is an option SpaceX can do stuff like land rockets on a boat

The Falcon 9 rocket sliced a dazzling arc through the early morning Florida sky on Friday. (credit: SpaceX)

NASA’s legendary flight director Gene Kranz entitled his memoir Failure is Not an Option, referring to his days in mission control from the Mercury missions through the Apollo program. That mindset helped Kranz and teams of engineers at...

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SpaceX delays historic launch for better weather—to land

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is reading to launch 11 ORBCOMM satellites into space. (credit: SpaceX)

In what may be a first in spaceflight history, SpaceX delayed the commercial launch of a satellite payload on Sunday to wait for better weather not to liftoff, but rather to land the booster of its Falcon 9 rocket.

The rocket...

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