{"id":735,"date":"2015-12-22T21:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T21:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2015-12-22T21:58:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T21:58:27","slug":"spacex-makes-history-falcon-9-rocket-successfully-launched-and-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/22\/spacex-makes-history-falcon-9-rocket-successfully-launched-and-landed\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Makes History:  Falcon 9 Rocket &#8211; Successfully Launched and Landed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Good_Morning_From_the_International_Space_Station.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-737\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Good_Morning_From_the_International_Space_Station-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Good_Morning_From_the_International_Space_Station\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>SpaceX made history at <a href=\"https:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Canaveral<\/a>, Florida last night, December 21, when it successfully landed an intact Falcon 9 rocket upright on solid ground after traveling into space and back. Falcon 9 landing was a milestone moment for SpaceX and CEO Elon Musk. The ability to recycle the spacecrafts marks a big step toward making space travel cheaper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s also the company&#8217;s first flight since June, when its unmanned spacecraft exploded shortly after liftoff and destroyed the company\u2019s Dragon cargo ship bound for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After a trouble-free countdown and liftoff at 8:29 p.m. EST today December 22 from Florida&#8217;s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Falcon 9 \u00a0delivered 11 commercial satellites into low-earth orbit, for the satellite-communications company Orbcomm. The two-stage Falcon 9 separated, the second stage of the rocket with the satellites continued on to orbit and ten minutes after launching, the engines of the the rocket&#8217;s first stage reignited to turn it around, back to Cape Canaveral and set down six miles to the south at Landing Zone 1, which is a facility previously used by the Air Force for rocket and missile testing that SpaceX has leased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018The Falcon has landed,\u2019 a launch commentator said when the first stage came into view of a camera near the landing site and SpaceX&#8217;s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, erupted in cheers, followed by chants of \u2018U.S.A.! U.S.A.!\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today&#8217;s landing was a milestone moment for\u00a0SpaceX and the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.\u00a0Developing a reliable fleet of reusable rockets will definitely take many years, But it promises to be a game changer for the space industry and will open the heavens to exploration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX made history at Cape Canaveral, Florida last night, December 21, when it successfully landed an intact Falcon 9 rocket upright on solid ground after traveling into space and back. Falcon 9 landing was a milestone moment for SpaceX and CEO Elon Musk. 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