Fifth time's the charm: SpaceX finally lands on its drone ship in the ocean

On Friday, after four near-misses, the private spaceflight company managed to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. "Fifth time's the charm," one of the company's webcast hosts said during the SpaceX webcast of the launch and landing. The webcast showed a beautiful image of the stage landing as the crowd in mission control celebrated. SEE ALSO: The year in Elon Musk's highs and lows, from Tesla to SpaceX This isn't the last time SpaceX will try to land their rocket on a barge. "The next two or three flights are going to be drone ship landings -- there's no choice there, because we can't get to land," Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX's vice president of flight reliability, said during a press conference ahead of the Dragon launch.