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SpaceX says it’s developing the first fully reusable rocket

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said the company is working on is working on the first-ever reusable rocket with the ultimate goal of colonizing Mars. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Money & Company Discovery Date : 29/09/2011 18:54 Number of articles : 2

SpaceX says it’s developing the first fully reusable rocket

Space tourism headed our way?

It has been five years since SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed manned spacecraft, captured the Ansari X Prize on Oct. 4, 2004, by demonstrating that a reusable rocket capable of carrying passengers could fly more than 62 miles high twice within two weeks — showing reliability and commercial viability. Enthusiasm over SpaceShipOne's feats was so high that year that even before the prize-winning flight, British mogul Richard Branson announced an agreement to use the technology in a second-generation design, SpaceShipTwo, to fly commercial passengers into space under the Virgin Galactic banner by 2007

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Space tourism headed our way?