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Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket lands back at Cape Canaveral after delivering supplies to the International Space Station
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] New video shows the moment Falcon 9 rocket landed at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida

  • The rocket blasted off at 9:38am Sunday and touched down at the space center that day

  • It returned after making its payload to the astronauts on the International Space Station

  • SpaceX CEO Elon Musk captioned the video of the return on Instagram: 'Baby came back'

  • The launch pad, which is being leased by SpaceX for six years, was used to send Neil Armstrong to the moon

  • SpaceX wanted to send the rocket - packed with supplies for the space station - Saturday but there was a fault

  • The reusable rocket has only been landed on solid ground by SpaceX three times before

  • This was the first launch for the company from Florida since September, when another Falcon 9 exploded

Posted by: Fred 2017-02-21
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