SpaceX sticks daytime rocket landing back on Earth after launch to space

There may come a time when SpaceX landing a rocket stage back on Earth after flying to space isn't news -- when we can simply take these science-fiction looking landings for granted and brush them off as no big deal. The Elon Musk-founded spaceflight company stuck yet another beautiful landing of the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket after launching an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft toward the International Space Station from a historic launch pad. The Dragon spacecraft was loaded down with thousands of supplies for NASA. The booster set down gently on a pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida about 8 minutes after its 9:39 a.m. This landing marks the company's eighth total landing and third back on solid ground.