SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket for the third time, and once again recovered it in the Atlantic using the 'Just Read the Instructions' droneship,
's private company, has now been involved in 125 launches and 87 landings, according to its website, since its first launch in September 2008.
In that time the company has reused 66 rockets, but its engineers are working on a fully reusable launch of a giant rocket, dubbed"Starship," which SpaceX hopes will be"capable of carrying humans to Mars and other destinations in the solar system."Falcon 9 and the Falcon Heavy, SpaceX's current rockets, are too small to send people to Mars.
"This is going to sound totally nuts," Musk said of Starship in September 2019,"but I think we want to try to reach orbit in less than 6 months." He added that such a timeline was dependent on manufacturing improvements. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on April 23, 2021 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX successfully launched a Sirius XM satellite into orbit on June 6, 2021
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