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A Chinese rocket booster was successfully retrieved on Friday after it made its first vertical landing on an offshore platform near Hainan, China. Video shared by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation shows the rocket slowly guiding itself down onto the platform, similar to SpaceX rockets.

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