"[The data] shows deployment of the legs...we also have a video feed, although the link was very weak. We're trying to clean it up [on the SpaceX side] and then we'll post it on our website, [we'll try to crowdsource the cleaning of the video]"
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"I'm optimistic that we'll be able to land the first stage back at Cape Canaveral by the end of the year....[aiming to relaunch it by next year]"
"The recovery operations were challenging," Musk told reporters from Washington, D.C.. The seas were heavy, he said, so the recovery team suspects the stage was destroyed. They were, however, able to find pieces that join the first and second stage.
If they were able to recover the stage from the ocean, it would probably take about a couple months to refurbish it for flight, Musk said.
Musk is so fascinating. He's probably the entrepreneur of our time. Yet he seems so soft-spoken and almost timid in public. It's quite contrary to the charismatic leader stereotype we're all familiar with.
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"I'm optimistic that we'll be able to land the first stage back at Cape Canaveral by the end of the year....[aiming to relaunch it by next year]"
If they were able to recover the stage from the ocean, it would probably take about a couple months to refurbish it for flight, Musk said.
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-will-make-an-import...