The private company SpaceX, who works for NASA, managed this morning something unprecedented for the space industry: Got a rocket with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) land intact on a small platform in the middle of the Atlantic.
The value of this new system, which is in full swing and already had four failed attempts, it would allow reuse rockets launched into space, usually after serving his mission fall into the sea and destroyed . This would lower costs significantly and would open a door to massive development of space tourism, which travel would be much cheaper.
The Falcon 9 rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) with more than 3,175 kilos of supplies and scientific equipment to the ISS astronauts. Among the envoy had material experiment with microgravity and an inflatable module for astronauts in the future, tourists could also be used.
> the Falcon 9 in plueno flight to the International Space Station (EFE)
All the equipment was traveling in a capsule that was put in orbit at 4.43 local time (20.43 GMT) in what was the eighth such mission to the ISS. But this time they managed that on his return the Falcon 9 landed intact on a platform for drones, in a complex maneuver that was broadcast live on NASA TV.
“The rocket landed successfully in instead of holing the platform or into the sea. we are excited about this achievement, “said Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and president. One of the central objectives of the aerospace company also creator of PayPal (the system on line of the Web payment), is that space travel no longer an eccentricity for millionaires and accessible to all.
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Barack Obama himself held this progress since twitter account. “Congratulations SpaceX to land a rocket at sea. It is by innovators like you and NASA that America continues to lead space exploration,” wrote the president of the United States.
In addition to the four previous failed attempts Space X, in January this year the company Blue Origin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, managed to land a rocket vertically on a firm platform, but in this case located on land. Do now over the ocean, is a new milestone for the aerospace industry
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