See all three of SpaceX's history-making rockets together in one room
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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
The next step is for SpaceX to prove that it can successfully refurbish reusable rockets for future flights.
Musk recently tweeted that the most recent rocket took too much damage during reentry to be relaunched, so instead that rocket will be used for ground tests.
That leaves us with the rocket from the first barge landing on April 8. Musk has announced that we can expect to see SpaceX reuse this rocket as early as May or June.
Here's a photo of SpaceX's three prized rockets cozying up in hangar 39A:
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