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SpaceX has released a Vine of its Falcon 9 booster crashing, and it's mesmerizing. The Falcon 9 experienced a successful launch to the space station on Jan. 10, but its attempt to land
on a floating barge afterwards was less successful. The booster located the barge and targeted it for its landing, but its fins ran out of hydraulic fluid, so it crashed and exploded. Elon
Musk, for his part, took a jocular tone about the crash, tweeting that at least during the next landing test, it will "explode for a diff[erent] reason," since it will have more
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