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SpaceX rocket makes record 10th flight while Elon Musk parties post-SNL - CNET

SpaceX rocket makes record 10th flight while Elon Musk parties post-SNL - CNET

SpaceX rocket makes record 10th flight while Elon Musk parties post-SNL - CNET
May 10, 2021 42 secs

While Elon Musk was reportedly out on the town in New York partying with Miley Cyrus in celebration of his first turn hosting Saturday Night Live, his space company was busy breaking its own record for reusing rockets.

Just before midnight Sunday Pacific Time, SpaceX landed a Falcon 9 booster known humbly as B1051 on its droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.

Musk and SpaceX have set out to drive down the cost of getting to space and even to the moon and Mars by designing rockets and spacecraft meant to be reused dozens of times.

There was something poignant about SpaceX reaching this latest milestone within hours of Musk's revelation during his SNL monologue that he lives with Asperger's syndrome. .

Musk and SpaceX have said they hope to reuse the rockets up to a hundred times each

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