FIFTH time's the charm. On April 8th SpaceX, an American rocketry firm founded by Elon Musk, completed one of its resupply missions to the International Space Station (ISS). The journey is now a routine operation: the eighth such mission the company has flown, although one failed to reach orbit. This launch, though, was more interesting than most, for two reasons.
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A spectacular manoeuvre for the Falcon 9 rocket
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