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Second successful sea landing for SpaceX

Second successful sea landing for SpaceX
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An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has made a swift and successful return trip into orbit, a live webcast showed. It blasted off from Florida on

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An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has made a swift and successful return trip into orbit, a live webcast showed.

It blasted off from Florida on Friday (May 6) to put a communications satellite into orbit, then quickly turned around to make a landing on an ocean platform.

Launch photos here → https://t.co/vn4S8bV3x3 pic.twitter.com/qPtXMlVNkt

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 6, 2016

The voyage was SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s second successful sea landing.

Woohoo!! https://t.co/0P8n8VmFbr

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2016

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