Friday, September 30, 2011 |

SpaceX To Try Reusable Launch

By Frank Morring, Jr. .

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) engineers have concluded it may be possible to modify the company’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle to make it fully reusable, a feat SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk says could cut the cost of access to orbit “a hundred-fold.”

Speaking at the National Press Club, Musk, who also ...