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'Recycled' rocket experiment fails to dock

'Recycled' rocket experiment fails to dock
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US commercial company Spacex failed to land part of a rocket on an ocean platform so it could be used again. The booster landed too hard on the

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US commercial company Spacex failed to land part of a rocket on an ocean platform so it could be used again. The booster landed too hard on the floating barge and toppled over.

It had been used to launch a shipment of over 2000 kilograms of groceries in a capsule for use by the crew on the international space station.

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