Jan 102015
The SpaceX Falcon 9 with a Dragon resupply module was successfully launched early this AM, an the Dragon is on its way to a rendezvous with the ISS. The first stage successfully oriented itself, guided itself successfully down to the landing barge, landed on the barge… and then either hit hard or hit and fell over. In any event, the stage was destroyed, but the barge was not. As the stage would have been destroyed if they *hadn’t* tried to recover it, it’s no great loss; as they’re still very early in the learning process, it’s still a pretty good step in the right direction. They came, almost literally, this close to making it.
Sadly, there is apparently no video of the landing due to dark and fog.