{"id":19412,"date":"2016-04-10T23:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/president-obama-leads-celebration-on-twitter-for-spacexs-rocket-landing-at-sea\/"},"modified":"2016-04-10T23:17:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T15:17:28","slug":"president-obama-leads-celebration-on-twitter-for-spacexs-rocket-landing-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/president-obama-leads-celebration-on-twitter-for-spacexs-rocket-landing-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama leads celebration on Twitter for SpaceX\u2019s rocket landing at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shows President Barack Obama around the company\u2019s Cape Canaveral rocket processing site in 2010. (Credit: Bill Ingalls \/ NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SpaceX\u2019s first-ever at-sea rocket landing was cause for a Twitter celebration that drew in President Barack Obama as well as other space-loving luminaries.<\/p>\n

SpaceX used its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket on Friday to send a Dragon cargo capsule on its way to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Minutes later, the rocket\u2019s first stage guided itself back from the edge of space and settled onto an autonomous drone ship, hundreds of miles out in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

Today astronauts used the space station\u2019s robotic arm to grab the Dragon and bring it in for its berthing. Meanwhile, the drone ship is making its way back to Port Canaveral, Fla., where the rocket stage will be offloaded for testing and probable reuse.<\/p>\n