New SpaceX Drone Ship Completes Booster Recovery Written 1 September 2021

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New SpaceX Drone Ship Completes Booster Recovery

First stage of a Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket on an autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS). | Credit: SpaceX Photos – CRS-8; Wikipedia; CC0

Florida Today reports that SpaceX’s new drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas returned a Falcon 9 booster to Port Canaveral Tuesday, completing its first mission since arriving at Port Canaveral in July. The Falcon 9 booster was used to launch a Dragon capsule with supplies for the ISS on Sunday.
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