--- title: SpaceX: Video Shows Landing From Rocket Perspective description: SpaceX again landed the first stage of one of its Falcon 9 rockets on Friday, capturing the landing with video footage from the rocket canonical: https://time.com/4351393/spacex-rocket-landing-video/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-28T16:37:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:54:34.066Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch a SpaceX Landing From the Rocket's Perspective og:description: The rocket company has done it again og:url: https://time.com/4351393/spacex-rocket-landing-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5eb5ec50a612f7e/69889577cf40a80963c436e8/space-x-rocket.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: SpaceX: The Privately Funded Aerospace Company Founded By Elon Musk og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a SpaceX Landing From the Rocket's Perspective twitter:description: The rocket company has done it again twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5eb5ec50a612f7e/69889577cf40a80963c436e8/space-x-rocket.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a SpaceX Landing From the Rocket's Perspective  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly May 28, 2016 4:37 PM CUT  In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket makes its first successful upright landing on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship on April 8. In this handout provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket makes its first successful upright landing on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship on April 8.NASA/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly May 28, 2016 4:37 PM CUT SpaceX again [landed the first stage of one of its Falcon 9 rockets](http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/27/11804110/watch-spacex-falcon-9-landing-onboard-video "undefined") on Friday, [capturing the landing with video footage](https://www.instagram.com/p/BF7wQGkF8ZJ/?taken-by=spacex "undefined") from a camera positioned on the the outside of the rocket. It was the third time the rocket company landed one of the rocket boosters on a drone ship at sea, [the Verge reported](http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/27/11804110/watch-spacex-falcon-9-landing-onboard-video "undefined"). Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, has said he intends to launch his [first unmanned Mars mission](http://time.com/4311049/mars-musk-spacex-2018/ "undefined") in two years. His company [has been working](http://time.com/4320750/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-lands-second/ "undefined") to land the first stage of its rockets safely after a launch so they can be re-used. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4351393/spacex-rocket-landing-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4351393/spacex-rocket-landing-video/"},"headline":"Watch a SpaceX Landing From the Rocket's Perspective","datePublished":"2016-05-28T16:37:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:54:34.066Z","description":"The rocket company has done it again","url":"https://time.com/4351393/spacex-rocket-landing-video/","keywords":["Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5eb5ec50a612f7e/69889577cf40a80963c436e8/space-x-rocket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte5eb5ec50a612f7e/69889577cf40a80963c436e8/space-x-rocket.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"SpaceX: The Privately Funded Aerospace Company Founded By Elon Musk","caption":"SpaceX: The Privately Funded Aerospace Company Founded By Elon Musk","creditText":"NASA/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4351393/spacex-rocket-landing-video/","name":"Watch a SpaceX Landing From the Rocket's Perspective"}}]}] ```