Without a doubt, it has become clear that billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is on a quest to revolutionize two different industries at the same time: luxury cars with his Tesla Motors and space travel with projects such as the NASA SpaceX Resupply Mission 2015.
In the latest news regarding the NASA SpaceX Resupply Mission 2015, the rocket was finally launched after many failed attempts, the latest of which was by the beginning of last week, when the launch was halted less than two minutes before the time it was supposed to.
According to CBC News, the NASA SpaceX Resupply Mission 2015 was finally launched on the past Saturday morning, featuring the Falcon 9 rocket plus the Dragon cargo ship sending critical supplies to the International Space Station, for further investigation in the ISS - but, while the launch itself was successful, the grander and more ambitious project of landing the leftover booster in the ocean didn't do as well.
As reported by UT San Diego, the idea behind NASA SpaceX Resupply Mission 2015 launch was landing the first stage of the rocket (Falcon 9) on a platform in the Atlantic, right after spacecraft Dragon separated from the rocket's second stage - a feat that has never been achieved, and will now have to be attempted at some other time.
Of course, the primary mission was the delivery of supplies, more than 5,000 pounds of them, to the International Space Station; NASA ordered them, and they include different things from replacements for experiments and equipment to extra groceries for the astronauts currently stationed at the the ISS.
Before the launch of the NASA SpaceX Resupply Mission 2015, the International Business Times reported that Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur behind SpaceX, had recently said on a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) that he was unsure whether the ocean landing would be a success, but that his company was aiming at the creation of reusable first stages in rockets to reduce cost and become more efficient.
