While NASA continues developing systems for its journey to Mars, industry is pushing forward in key space transportation technologies such as reusability and crew access to space. SpaceX and Blue Origin are leading the innovation in creating reusable launch vehicles. After SpaceX returned a Falcon 9 first stage to a landing zone near the launch site in April, it recovered five of the next eight, both at the landing zone and on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Reusable vehicles come to forefront
Aerospace America ; 54 , 11
2016
Article (Journal)
English
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