Thursday, April 25, 2013

SpaceX rocket takes off AND lands again

The following is a direct quote from the YouTube site.

"Published on Apr 22, 2013

SpaceX's Grasshopper flies 820 feet, tripling its March 7th leap.

Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX's rockets are being designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing."

Now watch this amazing flight. It looks like, right out of a Si-fi movie..

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