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SpaceX

Acquired

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The Boosteback Burn

Elon Musk and his team started working on the technology in twenty eleven, to land rockets. And they call the programm grasshopper. In april 20 frst, fourteenth, a falconana rocket on a drone ship, and it falls over. The second attempt, januaryTwenty fifteenth, that fails. Then they have two more fails in the ocean,. And then in april twenty sixteenth, they successfully land the twenty third falconine launch on a drown ship followed by a second successful landing. It's interesting thinking about this, ause the way that space x lands these look really unnatural. But if you watch, like blurgins rocket do this...

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