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Elon Musk posted a beautiful photo of the SpaceX Dragon taking off and a Vine of the crash landing

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SpaceX successfully launched its Dragon space capsule to the International Space Station on Tuesday, but the rocket the company had tried to re-land on an ocean platform tipped over just after touching down.

Nevertheless, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seems optimistic:

SpaceX then published a vine of the unsuccessful landing:

Here's Musk's initial analysis of the landing:

SpaceX is a private space company founded by Musk. It is trying to revolutionize spaceflight by creating reusable rockets.

The technology is still in the works, and Tuesday was the second time that SpaceX tried to land one of its massive, 140-foot-tall Falcon 9 rockets on a platform floating offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.

The first landing attempt took place last January and ended with a fiery explosion.

Kelly Dickerson contributed to this article.

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Michael was formerly front-page editor and a senior news editor at Business Insider.Michael earned a bachelor of arts in philosophy from Northwestern University and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern.In college he studied Buddhism in India and worked as a high-school sports reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times.