Falcon 9 Thaicom-8 launch
The SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off May 27, 2016 carrying the Thaicom 8 telecommunications satellite to geostationary-transfer orbit. The rocket's first stage was successfully returned to an offshore drone ship.

First Up for Wednesday is a report that SpaceX is planning its first re-flight of the Falcon 9 rocket for September or October.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...