SpaceX Did It!

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Darrell
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SpaceX Did It!

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They successfully landed the first stage on land, as well as deployed eleven comm satellites. You can watch the whole thing here--click on the Orbcomm-2 link, or forward to about the 32:00 mark to catch the landing:

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

Hopefully additional views will come to light in the near future. I bet Elon Musk has a mile wide grin right now.
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Awesome.
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Bravo Zulu. OK 3-wire.
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I saw Musk quoted as saying they used $200,000 in fuel to save a 16 million rocket. Made sense to me..... Good job.
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Dang.
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