Great news for private space. That makes two first stages recovered making it more likely that such recovery landings will become routine. Next they have to try a refurbishment of the craft and use it during another sat. launch. That will really bring down the cost of commercial space .

SpaceX employees watched from Mission Control in Hawthorne, California, and burst into wild applause as many jumped up and down cheering, “U.S.A., U.S.A.” The Dragon capsule is on it's way to ISS . In the future it will be redesigned for human travel.

This is great news! It was only a couple of decades ago that only the richest governments in the entire world could afford to put together programs like this,or even to have the ability to create them. Now it is being done by private companies working for profit.

IMO,this is every bit as much of a milestone as the Soviet launch of Sputnik was.

IMO,this is every bit as much of a milestone as the Soviet launch of Sputnik was.

It is historic, I think.

Bezos launched and landed his little tourist rocket again a few days ago, just seeking attention. A nice accomplishment but landing SpaceX's rocket is an order of magnitude more difficult than Bezos' tourist toy.

Next they have to try a refurbishment of the craft and use it during another sat. launch. That will really bring down the cost of commercial space .

That's when the costs for a launch drop dramatically.

I would guess that a first-launch rocket will cost the most. And they will price it down for subsequent launches due to increasing risk of aging equipment. The first-launch rockets will be used for human launches and they'll launch satellites with the reused rockets.

star trek here we come