Watch billionaire Elon Musk’s Space X land all three Falcon Heavy rocket boosters
Space X successfully landed its three rocket boosters for the first time yesterday, following the delivery of its first commercial payload.
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The company, which is owned by billionaire Elon Musk, launched its Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The rocket was launching a satellite into orbit for Saudi Arabian company Arabsat.
The boosters have a history of failed landings, both on land and at sea, making the first successful triple landing that much more important.
Today's landing shows that not only can the rocket launch a payload into orbit, but it can also successfully return to Earth.
Falcon Heavy is a part of Space X's growing service offerings, which are aided by the boosters' ability to be reused in later flights.
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The successful landing follows last month's launch of an unmanned crew capsule as the first step in resuming human space flight from the US.