Elon Musk says the Falcon 9 rocket SpaceX successfully landed is 'ready to fire again' | The Verge

Elon Musk says the Falcon 9 rocket SpaceX successfully landed is 'ready to fire again' | The Verge

January 01, 2016 December 30, 2015 SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 rocket successfully made it back to Earth  last month , touching down gently at Cape Canaveral after traveling out of our atmosphere, into space, and back again. Now, SpaceX boss Elon Musk says, the rocket is  ready for another mission . In an Instagram picture, posted a few hours before the new year was set to start on the east coast of the United States, Musk showed the Falcon 9 rocket in its Cape Canaveral hangar. "No damage found," he wrote, noting that the rocket was "ready to fire again." It's not yet clear when a mission that will use the veteran craft will take place, but if SpaceX can regularly re-use rockets on its jaunts into space, then it could  potentially save itself a lot of money — Musk says that a Falcon 9 costs $60 million to build, but only $200,000 to fuel. Dec 31, 2015 at 4:18pm PST The Latest Headlines We'll email you a reset link. If you signed up using a 3rd party account like Facebook or Twitter,

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