SpaceX's new 360 video puts you on the drone ship as its rocket lands

This is something else.

An incredible new 360 video from Elon Musk's SpaceX puts you right on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean as the company's Falcon 9 rocket came in for its successful landing on April 8. 

The new video shows everything from the rocking of the ship as the rocket comes down to the deployment of its landing legs just before touchdown. 

And the roar of the rocket is deafening.

Before the drone ship landing, the Falcon 9 rocket launched an uncrewed Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station stocked with tons of supplies and experiments for the astronauts and cosmonauts onboard.

This landing marked the first time SpaceX successfully brought its Falcon 9 booster in for a landing on a drone ship. This was the fifth time the company attempted a landing on a drone ship, and it comes after a successful land landing on a pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2015. 

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These tests mark important steps toward producing a fleet of reusable rockets.

SpaceX plans to reuse rockets in order to reduce the cost of flying people and payloads to space. 

If rocket parts can be used multiple times, it means that companies and organizations won't need to pay for all of the hardware fabrication each time a rocket launches. Instead, eventually they may just have to pay for the fueling of the rocket, a small cost by comparison to the millions of dollars it costs to launch something to space today.

SpaceX is riding high this week after announcing that the company plans to send its first uncrewed mission to Mars by 2018 using its Dragon 2 capsule and the Falcon Heavy rocket.

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