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  • SpaceX is a space exploration company founded by everyone’s favorite charismatic

  • James Bond villain Elon Musk, dedicated to cost efficient space travel and exploration.

  • They also love to land rockets on these tiny barges out in the middle of the ocean.

  • So given the vast amount of resources that the company has, why not just return those

  • rockets back to land instead of a tiny drone ship out at sea?

  • Rockets such as the Falcon 9 are currently used for space delivery, bringing satellites

  • into orbit or sending cargo to the International Space station.

  • Traditionally, when rockets launch into space, they need a lot of thrust to get through the

  • earth’s atmosphere. Once it gets to the prescribed altitude, the rocket drops its

  • first stage, relying on fewer engines to get it to where it needs to go.

  • That first stage then usually burns up in the earth’s atmosphere or perpetually orbits

  • the earth creating space junk.

  • SpaceX, however, is dedicated to making space travel cost efficient, and have made it a

  • priority to bring the first booster stage back to earth to save the cost of making new

  • ones every time someone at the International Space Station needs a refill.

  • And when so much fuel has been burned on high velocity missions, it’s impossible to bring

  • those first stage pieces back to the spots from where they originally launched on land

  • - leaving the only option for a safe landing to be out at sea.

  • And that is why we have these really expensive rockets landing on these tiny barges in the

  • middle of the ocean.

  • These autonomous spaceport drone ships are located in the pacific and atlantic oceans

  • and have names like Just Read the Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You.

  • While it may seem that someone was naming these high tech barges after text messages

  • in their phone, they are actually named after two sentient starships from the science fiction

  • novel The Player of Games.

  • Which is appropriate because this may all seem like a sci-fi dream, but it’s very

  • much a reality. So see you on Mars, guys.

SpaceX is a space exploration company founded by everyone’s favorite charismatic

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