For the first time ever, a private company has launched a spacecraft into orbit and then guided it back to Earth. The capsule that belonged to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), splashed into the Pacific on Wednesday afternoon. It was launched three hours earlier atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket. NASA ordered up the demonstration as a first step to handing over space station supply runs and astronaut rides to private businesses. Only governments had managed to recover spacecraft re-entering from orbit. SpaceX's spacecraft, called Dragon, circled the Eath twice before parachuting into the Pacific upon command.
I don't have much of an opinion about this, probably because there was little information in the article. However, I do think that its pretty cool that technology is advancing pretty fast. Who knows, maybe we'll soon be able to take a joy ride around the Earth.
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