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...
Because failure is an option SpaceX can do stuff like land rockets on a boat
SpaceX launches Jason 3 satellite, then tries to land Falcon 9 rocket at sea
Less than a month after SpaceX’s first successful rocket landing, billionaire Elon Musk’s company tried to do it again today – this time, on a ship at sea. Oh, and the Falcon 9 rocket launched a satellite, too. The primary objective of today’s...
SpaceX delays historic launch for better weather—to land
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...