SpaceX has successfully landed and recovered a rocket on an ocean platform for the first time, after launching a cargo ship to the International Space Station.
About two-and-a-half minutes after Friday afternoon's liftoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida the main part of the two-stage booster separated.
The Falcon 9 craft turned around and headed toward a so-called drone ship - named Of Course I Still Love You - in the Atlantic Ocean, neatly accomplishing a vertical landing.
The company said the achievement marks a historic first in the effort to make rockets recyclable and deliver cheaper, more accessible space travel.
SpaceX mission control in Hawthorne, California, erupted in cheers and chants of "USA" as the rocket stood upright on the barge about eight minutes after launch.
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