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That night SpaceX put everything on the line.
December 21, 2015. Nearly 11 years later and it hits just as hard.
Return to flight after a rocket failure six months earlier. First Full Thrust Falcon 9. First attempt to land an orbital-class booster on land.
They had tried the droneship and failed. They had never successfully landed anything.
In mission control it was a tense count.
They went for it.
Nine minutes later a rocket that had just thrown satellites toward orbit dropped out of the Florida dark. A camera on the back of the booster caught the engines lighting, still one of the most insane images in spaceflight. Legs out. The Falcon has landed.
That was the peak of everything they had been working toward. The whole industry said it was impossible. They bet the company on that night anyway.
Spaceflight has never been the same.
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