SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Live Stream: Can Elon Musk Repeat Success Landing On Ocean Barge 'Of Course I Still Love You'

On Friday, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. founder Elon Musk will try to repeat a successful attempt to pitch a SpaceX rocket from the Florida coastline to a robotic platform floating 200 miles away in the Atlantic Ocean. This time, however, the company's Falcon 9 rocket will be moving much faster than the one that deftly kissed the floating landing platform last month when SpaceX made aerospace history. The April 8 landing, part of the CRS-8 Dragon mission that delivered a payload to the International Space Station, proved Musk's idea that first-stage rockets can be recovered and reused instead of dropped into the ocean like very expensive garbage. But this idea is still in its experimental stage and would require repeated successes to become part of normal operating procedures. If the process is repeatable using the same first-stage rocket, it promises to significantly lower the cost of sending satellites, astronauts and other payloads into orbit.