Another successful launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on its eighteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-18) from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The Falcon 9’s first stage successfully landed  on landed on landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) following stage separation nine minutes after lift-off.

This amazing video shows the “Falcon rocket re-entry from space with double sonic booms” as twitted by the SpaceX founder (July 28) and landed flawlessly at pinpoint accuracy. This marked the second autonomous landing for this Falcon 9 first stage. The reuse of first stage enables huge cost saving according to the billionaire entrepreneur which makes space travel economical.  

According to Elon, 75 percent of the total cost goes to the first stage, based on investment analysts at Jefferies such can potentially translated into 50 percent cost savings to SpaceX customers. How significant such approach still depending heavily of number of times it can be reusable. One thing is for sure, SpaceX succeeded in overcoming the first major hurdle, that is to achieve autonomous landing and successfully done so multiple times.