Relive SpaceX's incredible daytime rocket landing with this video

Elon Musk does it again.
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Miriam Kramer
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Relive SpaceX's incredible daytime rocket landing with this video
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SpaceX did it again, and this time, with a whole lot of style.

Elon Musk's private spaceflight company managed to land yet another Falcon 9 first stage back at Cape Canaveral after launching a mission to orbit for NASA.

The daytime landing marks the third time the company has landed a rocket back on land and the eighth time overall that it has recovered a rocket stage after launch.

This Falcon 9 mission was the first SpaceX launch from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A, a pad with a rich history dating back to the Apollo moon missions up through the space shuttle era.

This marks the first time 39A has been used since the end of the shuttle program in 2011.

Here's another view of the landing, via SpaceX:

Hours later, Musk posted another video on Instagram, this time giving us perhaps the best close-up view of the amazing landing we've seen yet:

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Miriam Kramer

Miriam Kramer worked as a staff writer for Space.com for about 2.5 years before joining Mashable to cover all things outer space. She took a ride in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight and watched rockets launch to space from places around the United States. Miriam received her Master's degree in science, health and environmental reporting from New York University in 2012, and she originally hails from Knoxville, Tennessee. Follow Miriam on Twitter at @mirikramer.


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