SpaceX Completes Successful Launch, Narrowly Misses Catching $6 Million Nose Cone
As part of his "rocket reusability" ethos, Elon Musk had hoped to use a giant net on a boat to catch the rocket's protective covering. It turns out it's hard to catch stuff falling from space.
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket Thursday morning.
But the hard part came next: trying to catch the rocket's falling nose cone with a big net on a ship in the ocean.
Wait, what?
Part of the SpaceX ethos is "." By reusing as much of the rocket as possible,
