>>Roughly 10 minutes after takeoff, SpaceX successfully brought the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back down to the landing pad! Pretty impressive!
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>Some pretty serious programming was needed to make that happen!
No kidding! Landing 200+ foot tall rocket like that would be daunting task - plus they deployed 1/2 dozen satellites too - all this in less than 30 minutes. Making the first stage of a rocket like that reusable should really cut down on the cost of putting a satellite into orbit - soon the little guys can get in on the action too.
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