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SpaceX successfully launches – and lands – rocket in Southern California

Lighting up the evening sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaked away from Southern California, boosting an Argentine environmental satellite into orbit. The rocket's previously flown first stage then flipped around and returned to the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch site, chalking up SpaceX's first West Coast landing. Jeff Nguyen of CBS Los Angeles reports from Ventura, California.
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