Watch live: SpaceX launches rocket but fails to stick ship landing
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Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket failed to land upright on a ship off the Southern California coast after lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, accordng to SpaceX officials.
Neither of the two previous attempts to stick a sea landing has succeeded, although the company brought a Falcon rocket stage back to terra firma at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Dec. 21 in what many hailed as an engineering feat.
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