![]() "One thing is for sure we will make lemonade out of lemons and learn as much as possible from historic 1058 on our path to aircraft like operations," he wrote. It met its fate when it hit intense wind and waves resulting in failure of a partially secured OG less than 100 miles from home." "The fleet is mostly outfitted, but 1058, given its age, was not. "We came up with self leveling legs that immediately equalize leg loads on landing after experiencing a severe tippy booster two years ago on Christmas," wrote Kiko Dontchev, SpaceX's vice president of launch, on X. Other Falcon 9 first stages might have survived the rough sea conditions given improvements made to their landing legs. SpaceX's Falcon 9 first stage B1058 is seen launching (at left) and landing on Dec. "This one reusable rocket booster alone launched to orbit two astronauts and more than 860 satellites, totaling 260+ metric tons, in about 3.5 years," SpaceX posted on X. The stage, like the other "Block 5" boosters in SpaceX's fleet, had been certified for 20 launches. Since that flight, B1058 was used in the launch of SpaceX's 21st cargo delivery to the space station (CRS-21), a dedicated satellite launch for South Korea (ANASIS-II), two shared ride satellite launches (Transporter-1 and Transporter-3) and 14 Starlink missions. On May 30, 2020, B1058 lifted off for the first time on SpaceX's Demo-2 (DM-2) mission carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the company's Crew Dragon capsule "Endeavour." The two-month long mission to the International Space Station was the first to launch American astronauts from the United States since the end of NASA's space shuttle program in 2011. The booster was the only stage in SpaceX's fleet to be adorned with the space agency's "worm" logotype. ![]() Lost with the upper segment of B1058 was a unique, tell-tale marking that it had been used to launch the first astronauts for NASA. Seen after landing from its first flight in 2020, B1058 was the only Falcon 9 first stage to be adorned with the NASA "worm." (Image credit: SpaceX) ![]()
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