SpaceX launches 1st recycled rocket to space station

SpaceX has racked adult another first, rising a recycled rocket with a recycled plug on a NASA grocery run.

The unmanned Falcon rocket bloody off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Friday with a just-in-time-for-Christmas smoothness for a International Space Station.

.@SpaceX’s #Dragon load qualification is on a approach to a @Space_Station. Scheduled to arrive early Sunday morning: https://t.co/m0lzYzBUvb pic.twitter.com/udRw0w7K2J

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The rocket previously flew in June. The Dragon plug done a space hire conveyance in 2015.

It’s NASA’s initial use of a reused Falcon (although one has previously been reused for a non-NASA mission) and usually a second of a previously flown capsule.

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This was a initial launch in some-more than a year from this Florida pad, the theatre of a rocket blast in 2016.

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Following Friday’s launch, the first-stage upholder landed behind on Earth for its second time, this time during Cape Canaveral, after liftoff. 

Falcon 9 initial theatre has landed during Landing Zone 1 — SpaceX’s 20th liberation of a initial theatre booster. pic.twitter.com/DHLAf7hq7t

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The Dragon is hauling scarcely 5,000 pounds of space hire goods, including 40 mice for scientists and 20 barley seeds for Budweiser. It should strech a orbiting outpost Sunday.

The private aerospace association is salvaging as most as probable from flown rockets to expostulate down launch costs.

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