SpaceX's Falcon 9 Just Set A Truly Incredible Record
SpaceX's Falcon is now officially the rocket with more consecutive flights in all of rocket launching history. Space rockets moved from experimental to serious endeavors after WWII. Then the U.S. and Russia competed to build rockets using the leverage of advancements made by German scientists like Wernher von Braun, known for his contribution to NASA and his blueprints for Mars rocket spaceships.
Some of the most historical and famous space rockets include the Russian Sputnik used to launch the first satellite, the Mercury rocket used to put the first Americans in space, the Titan II used in the Gemini Mission and the Saturn V rocket, which took humanity to the moon. But rockets have come a long way, especially in the past 10 years, with launches occurring almost every day.
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According to Arstechnica, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has reached the milestone of 111 successful consecutive launches. This ends the glory days of the U.S. Atlas rocket and the legendary "Kings of Rockets," the Russian Soyuz and Proton rockets. In total, the Falcon launched 139 times and failed once in 2015 on a mission to reach the International Space Station cutting its streak to 111 launches. Russian rockets launching since the late 50s have more than 1,900 launches. But over 100 spread-out failures cut their continual success rates short of the new Falcon 9 record. Estimates say the Falcon could reach 500 flights in the next decade. But Elon Musk may have other plans.
Today, NASA depends on the Falcon to resupply the ISS and deliver astronauts. SpaceX also depends on the Falcon 9 to launch commercial satellites, its own army of Starlink satellites, and U.S. military
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