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On March 30th, SpaceX launched and landed a used rocket for the first time

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On March 30th, 2017 , SpaceX launched and landed a used rocket for the first time.

The Falcon 9 rocket had completed a previous mission almost a year earlier when it launched Spacex 's robotic Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station .

The rocket booster then landed vertically on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean .

This was the first successful drone ship landing for SpaceX.

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