SpaceX rocket comes back to shore after historic astronaut dispatch
The rocket that launched SpaceX's first-at any point manned crucial came back to terra firma.
That crucial, Demo-2, lifted off on a two-phase Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday (May 30) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending NASA space travelers Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley toward the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Crew Dragon capsule.
Around 9 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 first stage aced a pinpoint arrival on the SpaceX drone transport "Of Course I Still Love You," which was positioned a couple hundred miles off the Florida coast. The boat before long began making a beeline for shore, and on Tuesday (June 2) its ocean journey reached a conclusion: "Of Course I Still Love You," with the rocket made sure about to its deck, showed up at Florida's Port Canaveral,...