A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket carrying a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, May 1, 2017. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Cape Canaveral, FL – SpaceX launched a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government Monday morning and then successfully landed the booster for recycling.
The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its NASA-leased pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The company, owned by Elon Musk, sits in the Microsoft Green suburb of Redmond Washington. The decision by Mr. Trump to locate his space academy in the Northwest reflects the overwhelming importance of data science in the company’s efforts.
The mysterious Hand Zarkov, if that is his name, has no longer appeared in discussions of the company’s achievements. Meanwhile, SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk seesm to fulfill the novelists image of the great tech gurus form Azimov to Ayn Rand. It was Mush who said via Twitter that both the launch and landing were good. But 
the upper-level wind at liftoff was “unusually high.” “Tough call, as high altitude wind shear was at 98.6 percent of the theoretical load limit,” he said in a tweet. Earlier in the morning, he noted about the wind, “Worrying, but not a showstopper.”