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SpaceX Is Ready To Try Another Droneship Landing

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SpaceX has a pretty good track record when it comes to launching stuff into into space (an explosion last summer notwithstanding). It's less good at landing those rockets (or as Indiana Jones once memorably put it: "Fly? Yes. Land? No").

The company has tried four times to land its first stage Falcon 9 rocket booster upright on a drone platform in the ocean, and four times it has failed. But here we are on the eve of another SpaceX rocket launch scheduled for tomorrow evening at 4:43 p.m. Eastern (weather permitting), and SpaceX has its droneship named "Of Course I Still Love You" back out in the Atlantic, ready to catch the first stage of the rocket on its way down, as a new SpaceX Instagram post shows.


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