December 24, 2012 in History

Event:

A video of SpaceX's latest test of the company's Grasshopper rocket with vertical takeoff and vertical landing, is released; the rocket rose 131 feet, hovered and landed safely on the landing pad December 17, 2012





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1992 President Bush pardons Caspar Weinberger in Iran-contra affair
1968 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
1966 Luna 13 lands on Moon
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