New story in Technology from Time: The SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch Was Nearly Perfect. But the Main Core Didn’t Make It Home
The first launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket went off without a hitch on Tuesday — almost, anyway. The Falcon Heavy launched and deployed its payload, a cherry red Tesla roadster, into space successfully. Two of its three nine-engine cores, the Falcon Heavy’s side boosters, also returned to Earth, landing nearly simultaneously in a brilliant …