Elon Musk's SpaceX on brink of `Wright Brothers moment' with reused
rocket
If the rocket that Elon Musk's SpaceX expects to launch this week
looks familiar, that's because it is.
The Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to take off from Kennedy Space Center
in Cape Canaveral, Florida, has flown before, marking the first time Space
Exploration Technologies will reuse one of the 14-story-tall boosters it
recovered from past missions. The reused rocket will ferry a communications
satellite into orbit for Luxembourg-based SES, SpaceX's first commercial
customer, and signals a leap forward in Musk's 15-year-quest to drive down
launch costs and eventually create a human colony on Mars.
"This is a Wright Brothers moment for space," said Phil Larson, a
former space-policy adviser to President Barack Obama who worked for SpaceX and
is now at the University of Colorado. "It's as important as the first plane
taking off and landing and taking off again."
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