SpaceX's Thursday rocket launch and landing could make history

SpaceX is poised to enter a very exclusive club. 

The Elon Musk-founded spaceflight company is planning to re-fly a refurbished, uncrewed Dragon spacecraft on its second trip to the International Space Station on Thursday.

If successful, this will mark the first time SpaceX has re-flown one of its spacecraft, and it will propel it into the ranks of only a handful of launch providers that have sent the same spacecraft to orbit multiple times.

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"NASA’s space shuttle orbiters, the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B, and the Soviet Union’s VA spacecraft were all reused on orbital missions," Robert Pearlman, space historian and founder of collectspace.com, said.  Read more...

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