Monday, October 14, 2013

Another Grasshopper Record

On October 7, SpaceX's experimental Grasshopper rocket set another record, reaching an altitude of 2440 feet before essentially retracing its flight bottom first and safely landing back on its launch pad.

The company believes the way to truly open space is to cut launch costs, and the way to do that is to create reusable rockets.  Grasshopper is bringing implementation of that strategy closer.

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