SpaceX achieved a remarkable feat on April 21, launching two Falcon 9 rockets within hours. The evening launch of the Bandwagon-3 mission deployed multiple payloads, including a European reentry capsule and satellites for weather resilience and military surveillance. The booster successfully returned to Cape Canaveral, marking another milestone in SpaceX's rideshare program and increasing launch cadence.
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People were hacked to death with machetes. "She told me not to come,"at the hospital, shortly after his brother died in the intensive care unit after being shot and hacked.