The SpaceX rocket landed after a historic flight

The Falcon 9 rocket propulsion deck was brought from the Atlantic into the Florida port by the SpaceX's unmanned 'Of Course I Still Love You' .

Falcon 9 rocket propulsion platform docked in Canaveral. (Photo: Live Science).

SpaceX's 2-stage Falcon 9 boosters took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, sending the Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station ( ISS). About 9 minutes after launch, the first flight of the Falcon 9 landed on SpaceX's unmanned "Of Course I Still Love You" offshore a few hundred kilometers from Florida. The ship quickly arrived ashore and docked in Canaveral on June 2 with the rocket propulsion deck.

SpaceX often refurbished and reused the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket propellers. Reuse is a top priority for SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk to drastically reduce the cost of flying into space enough to make ambitious discoveries, especially colonization of Mars. However, the flight deck used in Demo-2 flight may no longer fly. SpaceX has not revealed what it will do with the department, but the company may store it as a historical witness. For example, the first thrust floor of the successful Falcon 9 rocket is being placed outside SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. The push floor used on May 30 is even more special with the NASA worm logo.

Demo-2 is the first space flight to launch from the United States after NASA stopped using the space shuttle in 2011. This is the result of cooperation between SpaceX and NASA. SpaceX received a $ 2.6 billion contract in the Commercial Crew program to conduct six manned flights to the ISS. Demo-2 is designed to evaluate the safety and reliability of Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 missiles for those flights.