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title: "SpaceX Falcon 9 First Successful Landing"
year: 2015
country: "United States"
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startDate: "2015-01-01"
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# SpaceX Falcon 9 First Successful Landing

> Falcon 9's successful booster recovery and reuse proved reusable rocket technology viable, slashing space launch costs and revolutionizing the aerospace industry.

## Summary

A Falcon 9 first-stage booster is a reusable rocket booster used on the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy orbital launch vehicles manufactured by SpaceX. The manufacture of first-stage booster constitutes about 60% of the launch price of a single expended Falcon 9, which led SpaceX to develop a program dedicated to recovery and reuse of these boosters. After multiple attempts, some as early as 2010, at controlling the re-entry of the first stage after its separation from the second stage, the first successful controlled landing of a first stage occurred on December 22, 2015, on the first flight of the Full Thrust version. Since then, Falcon 9 first-stage boosters have been landed and recovered 630 times out of 643 attempts, including synchronized recoveries of the side-boosters of most Falcon Heavy flights.

## Sources

- [SpaceX Falcon 9 B1019](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_first-stage_boosters) - Wikipedia

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