Amazing! Drone Copter Chases Rocket Launch! – The Race to Colonize Space Is Underway! (VIDEO)

by Austin Petersen

 To infinity and beyond…

Elon Musk thinks we need to move beyond this blue & green ball. He’s currently trying to lower the cost of space travel, by a factor of 10. Musk believes… it’s time to leave Earth.

3,000 market heroes from SpaceX test launched a rocket prototype that was chased by a remote-controlled, hexacopter drone. The employees of SpaceX are elated that their mission to colonize other planets is on track. The SpaceX Grasshopper leaped 250 and 325 meter jumps above ground. The rocket has proven very agile, providing the spacecraft with its biggest hop yet at 744 meters. That’s about half a mile.

The Grasshopper is made out of a Falcon 9 first-stage tank, a Merlin 1D rocket engine, landing legs with a steel support structure.

This rocket doesn’t just blast off in this video. It floats perfectly back to the launchpad, as if it were as light as a feather.

And guess what? They are planning on being able to reuse these things.

Conventional rockets deploy fuel canisters that are discarded, and carry a heavy price tag. SpaceX’s design is more cost-effective. NASA is even using them to shuttle supplies to the International Space Station.

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Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.