A live webcast from the company s california headquarters captured it all. its main mission to create re-useable rockets to save on launch costs and make space more widely accessible. it is the brain child of elan musk, the billionaire mogul, also behind tesla. this successful landing comes six months after a failed attempt in june with a massive explosion. shortly after launch, the rocket on its way to deliver supplies to the space station disintegrated. last night, redemption and triumph with elan musk tweeting, welcome back, baby. nasa weighed in too, tweeting, congratulations spacex on your successful vertical landing of the first stage back on earth. just imagine the brain power, the engineering power it took to make this happen. several companies are competing for a piece of the pie to resupply the space station and eventually carry astronauts to the station and beyond. competitor jeff bezos, the ceo of amazon, he achieved a similar
it s really very cool, actually. tune in to cnn tonight, live coverage of the dinner beginning at 9:30 eastern. a night leon panetta called nerve racking, when osama bin laden was killed. in the year since his death the nation is better off, he says. they said that they had kia with geronimo and confirmed it happened, that was the moment when we knew that all of the work that had been done was paying off. i think the one thing all of us feel good about that were involved in this operation is that as a result of what we did, america is safer. but even without bin laden as leader, the threat of al qaeda still remains, saying there is no silver bullet to destroy the terror network. ramping up the attacks, mitt romney is moving ahead after another big week in the republican race but president obama has a few things to say as well. we ll break down the political week, next. does aspirin even work on my headache? aspirin for pain? aspirin is just old school. people will h