SpaceX never gives up trying to accomplish impossible tasks, and with their Falcon 9 rocket, they have just made the impossible possible. Basically, the team had successfully launched the rocket into space and returned it back to Earth in one piece. They didn’t stop there, they even landed the thing on a drone ship in the middle of the sea. Last year they’ve tried over and over again and failed over and over. Either it blows up or something randomly goes wrong but this time, the Falcon 9 finally made it successfully, not only is this feat a first in history, but it proves that NASA doesn’t need to waste time and resources on creating rockets that don’t return to deliver shipments to our space stations and within our orbit safely. Even the POTUS had to commend them on completing a great task.
Congrats SpaceX on landing a rocket at sea. It's because of innovators like you & NASA that America continues to lead in space exploration.
— President Obama (@POTUS44) April 8, 2016
SpaceX plans to launch the same Falcon 9 rocket again in May or June of this year just to make sure that the rocket is still in reusable condition.
Landing from the chase plane pic.twitter.com/2Q5qCaPq9P
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 8, 2016
Onboard view of landing in high winds pic.twitter.com/FedRzjYYyQ
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 9, 2016
The 1st stage of the Falcon 9 just landed on our Of Course I Still Love You droneship. Dragon in good orbit pic.twitter.com/SYyUCDZE3k
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 8, 2016