SpaceX may try a daring rocket fairing recovery tonight, too

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SpaceX has lengthy stated it want to make its complete Falcon 9 rocket reusable. Tonight at 6:27pm ET, the corporate might take a key step towards that objective by reusing a primary stage of the rocket that launched almost a yr in the past. However SpaceX can also go for an additional "first"—by recovering the payload fairing of its rocket.

In a Fb submit immediately, Steve Jurveston, a enterprise capitalist and SpaceX investor, wrote from Florida, "On the historic Apollo 11 Pad 39A for the primary reuse of a SpaceX booster (and first try at a fairing restoration)." SpaceX spokesman John Taylor wouldn't instantly affirm the potential for a payload fairing restoration.

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