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SpaceX botched booster landing, but Christmas dinner made it
ManuDate: Saturday, 08-December-2018, 9:10 PM | Message # 1
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SpaceX botched booster landing, but Christmas dinner made it to ISS


USA TODAY
Published on Dec 7, 2018

SpaceX's successful Falcon 9 rocket launch proved to be quite a spectacle for viewers and was considered a success despite the lost booster.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket vaulted off the pad from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Monday, tearing its way through unusually clear blue skies on a path to secure at least four company records before deploying dozens of spacecraft.

The 10:34 a.m. Pacific Time (1:34 p.m. ET) mission, labeled SSO-A for Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, took 64 spacecraft in a specially designed deployer to orbit, but not before the rocket's booster became the star of the show with a liftoff and drone ship landing
 
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