SpaceX: 'Close, but no cigar' landing leftover rocket booster

SpaceX: 'Close, but no cigar' landing leftover rocket booster
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SpaceX successfully launched its unmanned Falcon rocket toward the International Space Station on Saturday. The first-of-its-kind attempt to recover the leftover booster? That did not go as hoped, The Associated Press reports.

"Close, but no cigar this time," billionaire SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Twitter afterward.

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Sarah Eberspacher

Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.