SpaceX is going full-speed ahead this weekend, picking up where it left off after its last attempted first-stage landing. This comes after reports that their next attempt would be a terrestrial landing. But the company has decided instead to press ahead with its next planned barge landing off the coast of Cape Canaveral.

This weekend, a Dragon 9 rocket will (tentatively) lift off from Cape Canaveral at 9 a.m. EDT. Shortly thereafter, its first stage will attempt another barge landing.

"Our next launch attempt is Sunday, June 28 — a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA — and will include an attempt to return the first-stage of the rocket to our drone ship in the Atlantic," Phillip Larson of SpaceX told Popular Mechanics.

The cargo resupply mission is meant to fill the void left by the failed Russian Progress 59 resupply mission, which spun out of control en route to the International Space Station in late April before plummeting back to Earth days later. In addition to the resupply, the mission will carry a secondary payload. The International Docking Adapters 1 will be aboard the spacecraft, providing the first of two adapters for the next generation of manned resupply crafts, currently under construction by SpaceX and Boeing.

If the first stage landing is successful, it will provide a huge milestone for SpaceX's ambitious plan to create reusable rockets, which has come achingly close to sticking the landing on multiple occasions now.

Source: The Verge

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