After recent successes, SpaceX is going to need a bigger trophy room. So far, the private spaceflight company has safely landed a total of three rockets after launching them into space.
Following a successful landing of the first stage of a Falcon 9 at Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral on December 22, the company outdid itself by landing two more first stages on the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship at sea. It nailed the ocean landing first on April 8 and then again on May 6 under even more difficult conditions.
The three successful landings bring SpaceX closer to achieving its goal of reusing rockets, which could potentially cut the cost of spaceflight by millions of dollars.
And now, as CEO Elon Musk joked in a recent tweet, the company is running out of storage space.
Three's company pic.twitter.com/nRfFmTpzZw
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 15, 2016
Here's a photo of SpaceX's three prized rockets cozying up in hangar 39A:SpaceX's goal is to make almost all of its Falcon 9 rockets reusable, which would dramatically reduce the cost of spaceflight. A Falcon 9 might fly as many as 100 times before retirement, Musk told Ars Technica in April.
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