SpaceX Lands Reusable Rocket on Ocean Platform in Historic First–Watch

SpaceX successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket's reusable first-stage booster on a drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday. It was the Hawthorne, Calif., company's fifth attempt at a sea landing and first successful one.

The rocket's first-stage booster landed a few minutes after launch on the drone ship, called Of Course I Still Love You. In December, SpaceX's first-stage booster successfully returned to land at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

"That is amazing!" Chris Hadfield, a retired Canadian astronaut who was commander of the International Space Station, said Friday on Twitter. "World-leading ability, proven. Opens the imagination to what is possible."

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