San Francisco — Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation successfully launched its second rocket in as many months on Sunday, bringing it a 10th of the way to its goal of deploying 20 to 24 rockets this year. The Falcon 9 rocket that launched SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on Sunday returned to Earth soon after liftoff. SpaceX expects to launch a "flight proven", or reused, Falcon 9 rocket for the first time this spring. "Baby came back," Musk wrote in a tweet on Sunday morning. The company has designed its rockets to be reused, a key part of its effort to drive down costs and make colonising Mars possible. The launch — SpaceX’s first from historic "39A", the storied complex at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida that was home to the famed Apollo missions — was the company’s second since a fireball destroyed a different rocket and its payload on a Florida launch pad in September. SpaceX, which completed just eight missions in 2016, successfully returned to the skies las...
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