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Line 61: By late 2014, SpaceX suspended or abandoned the plan to recover and reuse the Falcon 9 second stage;<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y13jbl7ASxY&feature=youtu.be&t=14m20s</ref> the additional mass of the required heat shield, landing gear, and low-powered landing engines would incur too great a performance penalty. [[Blue Origin New Shepard\|Blue Origin's New Shepard]] [[suborbital]] rocket, following the first landing attempts of [[flight test\|test]] boosters by SpaceX, completed its first successful controlled descent and landing from space on 23 November 2015.<ref>{{cite news \|title=Blue Origin Makes Historic Rocket Landing\|url=https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/blue-origin-makes-historic-rocket-landing \|accessdate=24 Nov 2015 \|work=Blue Origin \|date=2015-11-24}}</ref>{{primary source inline\|date=December 2015}}<!-- there are many secondary sources for this; should not use a link to a company press release; see Talk:Blue Origin, for example. --> == Technologies == Line 183 ⟶ 181: SpaceX has applied to the [[FAA]] to make the [[Falcon 9 Flight 20\|next test]], the 8th booster descent test overall, attempt a landing on land rather than on a floating landing platform in the ocean. The goal would be to bring the booster [[VTVL\|down]] at the [[Landing Complex 1]] facility—the former CCAFS Launch Complex 13—that SpaceX has recently built at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.<ref name=ft201511201> {{cite news \|last1=Dean\|first1=James \|title=SpacexSpaceX wants to land next booster at Cape Canaveral \|url=http://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/spacex/2015/12/01/spacex-wants-land-next-booster-cape-canaveral/76576142/ \|accessdate=2 December 2015 \|work=Florida Today \|date=2015-12-01 }}</ref> == See also == * [[Blue Origin New Shepard]] == References ==

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