SpaceX Releases Photos from Historic Ocean Barge Landing

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On Friday, SpaceX made history by performing its first successful ocean barge landing following a resupply mission to the ISS. Today, they released the photos.

Most of the images were captured by cameras aboard the barge, and they all show the fiery descent of the rocket as it approached and ultimately touched down successfully—an incredible scientific feat, that some might call visually beautiful as well:

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All of the photos are in the public domain, and can be found on their Flick account here. And if you want to see the video of the landing, just click play below.

(via Digg)

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