Elon Musk's SpaceX already knows what it's going to do with its history-making rocket - but it's not what you think
On Monday, Elon Musk's SpaceX had the biggest rocket launch and landing in history: After shooting one of its Falcon 9 rockets (shown below) into space, SpaceX then turned part of the rocket, called the first stage, around for an epic rocket landing at its Landing Zone 1.
The big idea behind this landing is to spawn a fleet of reusable rockets that can launch, land, re-fuel, and re-launch within a few hours. But that won't be happening for the first stage that SpaceX retrieved on Monday:
SpaceX
That means we can look forward to more rocket landings like the one on Monday, but it's going to be a while before we see the rapidly reusable rockets Musk envisions.
"It'll take a few years to iron all that out and make sure it all works well," Musk said. In the meantime, sit tight: We're watching a spaceflight revolution in the making.
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