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SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 crashes on barge landing attempt

• theverge.com

SpaceX just successfully launched its sixth resupply mission to the International Space Station, but its second attempt to land the reusable Falcon 9 rocket has failed. It's still unclear if it completely touched down, but excess lateral velocitycaused the rocket to tip over in the last few moments. Judging from the picture the company just tweeted, it's another case of "close, but no cigar."

Before yesterday's scheduled launch, Musk tweeted that he still expected less than a 50 percent chance of success despite promising returns from the company's first few launches of the modified rocket. But shortly after today's successful launch, he and another SpaceX employee tweeted hints of the rocket's grim fate:


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