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SpaceX
CRS-8
was a
Commercial Resupply Services
mission to the
International Space Station
that launched on April 8, 2016, at 20:43 UTC. It was
the twenty-third flight
of a
Falcon 9
rocket, the tenth flight of a
Dragon
cargo spacecraft, and the eighth operational mission contracted to
SpaceX
by
NASA
under the Commercial Resupply Services program. After boosting the payload on its
orbital trajectory
, the rocket's first stage re-entered the denser layers of the atmosphere and landed vertically on the ocean landing platform
Of Course I Still Love You
nine minutes after liftoff (as pictured in this photograph), thus achieving a long-sought-after milestone in the
SpaceX reusable launch system development program
.
Photograph credit:
SpaceX
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