SpaceX to attempt fully reusable orbital booster

Quick Read Elon Musk says SpaceX will attempt to develop fully reusable space launch vehicle

Photo credit: Getty/NICHOLAS KAMM | SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk speaking behind models of the Falcon 9 (L) and the Falcon Heavy (R) rockets at the National Press Club in Washington. (April 5, 2011).

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California space-launch entrepreneur Elon Musk said Thursday his company will try to develop an orbital booster system with components capable of flying back to Earth for reuse.

Both of the rocket's stages would return to the launch site and touch down vertically, under rocket power, on landing gear after delivering a spacecraft to orbit, Musk said in a webcast speech to the National Press...

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