Predicting the Outcome of SpaceX Launches

This research project aims to predict if the Falcon 9 first stage will land successfully.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches are advertised to save cost by 60% if SpaceX can reuse the first stage. Determining the outcome of the first stage lauch will therefore be important for evaluating costs.

Project Contents:

• Collect data using SpaceX REST API and web scraping
• Wrangle data to prepare for analysis
• Explore data with data visualization as well as SQL
• Build interactive map with Folium to explore features of launch sites
• Build interactive dashboard to explore the importance of launch site and payload mass for mission outcome
• Build and evaluate four machine learning classification models to predict landing outcome