SpaceX Aces First Landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base

SpaceX Aces First Landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base

SpaceX landed a Falcon 9 rocket back at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), CA for the first time this evening.  While the company’s launches and landings on the East Coast have become almost routine, this is the first time it attempted a landing at its Landing Zone 4 at VAFB.

The launch was of a synthetic aperture radar remote sensing satellite, SAOCOM 1A, for Argentina’s space agency Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE).

CBS News space reporter Bill Harwood tweeted statistics on the number of SpaceX launches and landings, while SpaceX and others tweeted views of the launch and landing including amazing shots of how it looked along the California coast (one of which was tweeted by Eric Garcetti, the Mayor of Los Angeles).

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