Launch Mission: CRS-3

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 14

Details: Following second-stage separation, SpaceX conducted a second controlled-descent test of the discarded booster vehicle and achieved the first successful controlled ocean touchdown of a liquid-rocket-engine orbital booster. Following touchdown the first stage tipped over as expected and was destroyed. This was the first Falcon 9 booster to fly with extensible landing legs and the first Dragon mission with the Falcon 9 v1.1 launch vehicle.

🚀 Rocket Details

Name: Falcon 9

Type: rocket

📍 Launchpad Details

Name: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40

Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida

🛰️ Cores

• Core Serial: B1006 — Reuse Count: 0View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

• Payload: CRS-3 — Mass: 2296 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

• Name: American Islander — Type: CargoView Ship

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