Elon Musk’s next trick: Landing a rocket upright on a barge in the middle of the sea.

SpaceX, his startup space company, has designed a rocket he hopes will be able to launch, then return to Earth, touching down softly on the bullseye of a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean.

By Christian Davenport

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