Falcon 9 booster

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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 543 times out of 556 attempts, including synchronized recoveries of the side-boosters of most Falcon Heavy flights.

Launch of the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test as seen from the main spectator stand of LC-39ALaunch of the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test as seen from the main spectator stand of LC-39A
THAICOM 8 first-stage landing (26812794884)THAICOM 8 first-stage landing (26812794884)
Space Center Houston March 2022 32 (SpaceX Falcon 9 booster)Space Center Houston March 2022 32 (SpaceX Falcon 9 booster)