SpaceX managed to successfully land on Friday Falcon 9 on a platform in the Atlantic ocean , after launching the rocket into space with the capsule Dragon , which brought supplies to the International space Station (ISS English). It was the fifth attempt to land the rocket on an offshore platform, and the last was in March.
The mission control at the headquarters of the company in California burst cheers when live images showed that the first stage of the Falcon 9 alighted on the platform of a drone maritime after failed four attempts prior to regain the rockets.
“the first stage of the Falcon 9 has just landed in our ‘droneship’” SpaceX tweeted. The spokesman for the NASA George Diller confirmed that the rocket had landed “ successfully “, just a few minutes after launch.
This victory is part of the commitment of the executive Director Elon Musk , owner of the Tesla automotive, reduce the costs of the flights space thanks to recycling parts of expensive rockets, which normally fall to the ocean and lost .
SpaceX had managed to recover a rocket on land. But in the ocean, the Falcon approached the platform and just crashing it or falling over.
The company Musk launched the Falcon 9 with the capsule unmanned Dragon for bring supplies and scientific experiments to the International Space Station (ISS), in its first supply mission from the crash your rocket in June 2015.
Dragon deliver 3.1 tons of supplies and scientific material, including an inflatable space camera that astronauts will test microgravity and will be temporarily docked to the orbital station.
The ship also carries mouse for experiments and lettuce seeds for cultivation. Last year, astronauts ate lettuce grown in space for the first time. Getting produce food in space would be a major step in efforts by NASA to send astronauts to longer trips in the coming decades, as an asteroid or Mars .
Dragon will be coupled to the ISS , which orbits the Earth at 400 km altitude , on Sunday morning. This is the eighth in a series of supply flights that NASA commissioned SpaceX . Before the release of Friday, and after the accident in June last year, the company had sent into space its Falcon 9 twice, but not to the ISS but for launch satellites .
AFP
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