SpaceX releases footage of failed rocket landing test
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SpaceX has released a Vine of its Falcon 9 booster crashing, and it's mesmerizing.
The Falcon 9 experienced a successful launch to the space station on Jan. 10, but its attempt to land on a floating barge afterwards was less successful. The booster located the barge and
targeted it for its landing, but its fins ran out of hydraulic fluid, so it crashed and exploded.
Elon Musk, for his part, took a jocular tone about the crash, tweeting that at least during the next landing test, it will "explode for a diff[erent] reason," since it will have more fuel.
Musk added that the company will try another launch in two to three weeks.
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Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.