SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket-landing team gets 1st-ever Neil Armstrong Space Prize

The winners of the first-ever Neil Armstrong Space Prize just got their hardware.Those awardees — the people who developed and mastered the famous landing capability of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket — were announced in April. But they didn't actually receive the prize until Tuesday night (Sept. 15), when it was bestowed during a ceremony at the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C.And it was richly deserved, according to Purdue University, which created the international award and named it afte