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SpaceX Launches Sensitive Military Mission, Nails Landing

  • Landing, refurbishing rockets for reuse key to Musk’s vision
  • Launch marks SpaceX’s fifth successful mission this year
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SpaceX Rocket Blasts Off and Touches Down Successfully

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Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. launched a sensitive mission for the U.S. military and landed the rocket’s booster on land, marking the company’s fifth successful mission of 2017.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying NROL-76, a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, rumbled aloft about 7:15 a.m. Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a livestream of the mission on SpaceX’s website showed. The launch, originally planned for Sunday, was delayed 24 hours due to a sensor issue.

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