The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket returns to Earth unharmed after leaving the space [Video] :
For the first time in history, a rocket has gone into space and landed without damage. The protagonist is the Falcon 9 rocket company of Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA) is the place in which it was released and the same site that successfully returned minutes ago.
As context, it is thought that the rocket leaving Earth would never return, barely make it into thousands of pieces falling when the sea is not that become space junk. The problem is that building them requires millions of resources, particularly money, which prevents it from being profitable to make such submissions of recurrently because everything is destroyed in use.
Hence the importance of the milestone for SpaceX rocket is his first out into space and back without damage, which could deal in the near future for sending supplies into space, but even better, the "low" cost of operation You could start by end business travel human inside, and he main objective of the company. Going to the figures, a rocket like the Falcon 9 needs about $ 16 million for its creation, but each additional trip alone 200,000.
As for precedent, Blue Origin, a company of Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, also achieved a few weeks ago a rocket launch and return , but it was not as fast and much less went as far as he did the Falcon 9 after Three failed attempts -llegando to the International Space Station with supplies- and consider to a floating platform independent for landing, it achieved a historic event for Science and Technology.
Finally, subtract start saving for when ticket sales for commercial space travel to become popular, but more importantly, it begins execution, something closer thanks to SpaceX. By the way, you can review the accounts SpaceX and ElonMusk on Twitter to keep up with more pictures and details, plus, the news page SpaceX has technical information of great interest.
Here is the full video of the mission:
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