--- title: Watch the SpaceX CRS-6 First Stage Landing in Slow Motion HD description: The launch marked a second chance at attempting to recover a Falcon 9 rocket. canonical: https://time.com/3824325/watch-spacex-rocket-land-slow-motion/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-16T00:47:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:46:41.375Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch the SpaceX Rocket Landing in Slow Motion og:description: The rocket tipped over due to excess lateral velocity og:url: https://time.com/3824325/watch-spacex-rocket-land-slow-motion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97b91a52f23a02e4/6987eb5a8e0601e9fa45e274/spacex-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: SpaceX og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the SpaceX Rocket Landing in Slow Motion twitter:description: The rocket tipped over due to excess lateral velocity twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt97b91a52f23a02e4/6987eb5a8e0601e9fa45e274/spacex-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the SpaceX Rocket Landing in Slow Motion ## Video: A Year in Space: The Mission [Watch (HLS stream): A Year in Space: The Mission](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/gEqrnCPI.m3u8) (3:59)  _Published 2015-03-24. On March 28, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly begins a historic year in Space. Time follows Kelly and his twin brother, Mark, as they work the test the boundaries of long-term space travel._ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 16, 2015 12:47 AM UTC  by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 16, 2015 12:47 AM UTC SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, marking the sixth resupply mission for SpaceX to the International Space Station and a second chance at attempting to recover a Falcon 9 rocket. The company released this HD slow motion video on Wednesday that shows the rocket approach SpaceX’s autonomous drone barge landing platform, then tipping over after impact. 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