On the fifth attempt was successful entrepreneur billionaire Elon Musk and SpaceX to land their Falcon 9 rocket on an unmanned platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
Previous attempts to land the unmanned rocket at an unmanned drone ships have ended in crash landing or other accident . Friday night Norwegian time managed the main stage of the rocket finally slowing controlled and land precisely in standing position on the platform.
– Rocket country rather than making a hole in the ship or fall over. This was really encouraging, said Musk to those present reporters at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The rocket SpaceX sent up was loaded with supplies to the International Space Station ISS. The goal of testing is reuse and recycling of rockets. With current technology, the remains of spent rockets discarded, resulting each year in the loss of millions of dollars for the missile industry.
In December he Musks company for the first time to land the unmanned rocket’s standing on solid ground, but first Friday they managed to land at sea.
(NTB)
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