the first in which the descent target location was on land, and also the first ever successful landing.

Prior to this flight, SpaceX's two previous attempts at a vertical landing and booster recovery ended in failure to recover the rocket. The success of flight 20 marked a significant milestone en route to the company's goal of creating a reusable rocket system that would significantly reduce the cost of launching payloads into orbit.

Falcon 9 flight 20 was the first launch of the substantially

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