Spacex's reused first stage launches successfully

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I hadn't seen any discussion or mention on HN. This is an important milestone in increasing the availability of space, both for commercial and human ventures, and possibly for extraglobal habitation in the future.

I found the WaitButWhy series on Musk and his companies to be interesting and enlightening (as someone with no aerospace background):

Part 1: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/05/elon-musk-the-worlds-raddest-m...

The SpaceX post (part 3): http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-coloni...

Additional SpaceX post: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/spacexs-big-fking-rocket-the-f...

Edit: line breaks for links.

It is a stunning achievement, absolutely amazing. Unsurprisingly it has, in fact, been discussed here on HN. Did you use the search box and do a search for "SpaceX" ??

Anyway, there's this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999521 (101 comments)

And this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999378 (354 comments)

These remaining ones don't have any discussion, and some are talking about landing the fairing, others are links to the live broadcast, but they are all related to this most recent launch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14042309

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14012029

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14010350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14004243

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002565

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14002488

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999518

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999511

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999260

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999132

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999127

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13999122

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