---
title: "Eleven Days After Making History, The Falcon 9 Is Ready to Fire Again"
description: "Elon Musk updates the world on the status of the reusable Falcon 9 rocket and claims that it's already ready to fire again"
date: "2016-01-03"
modified: "2016-01-03"
authors:
  - name: "June Javelosa"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/javelosa-junegmail-com"
url: "https://futurism.com/falcon-9-is-once-again-ready-for-mission"
categories:
  - "Falcon"
  - "Space"
  - "SpaceX"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "falcon 9"
  - "reusable rocket"
  - "SpaceX"
---

# Eleven Days After Making History, The Falcon 9 Is Ready to Fire Again

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-7.25.01-PM.png>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/1/10697914/elon-musk-says-falcon-9-rocket-spacex-ready-to-fire" target="\_blank"\>The Verge\</a\>\</em\>*

**Falcon 9**

Falcon 9, SpaceX’s reusable rocket, landed back on Earth just a few short weeks ago after landing at Cape Canaveral. Yesterday, Elon Musk, the head of the SpaceX program, announced that the Falcon 9 is **already** ready to be launched for another mission.

Musk, who recently posted a photo on Instagram just before the world welcomed 2016, showed the Falcon 9 rocket at the Cape Canaveral hangar, with a caption that read: “No damage found,” and that the it was “ready to fire again.”

[![Elon Musk/ Instagram](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-7.25.22-PM-268x300.png>)](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-03-at-7.25.22-PM.png>)
*Elon Musk/ Instagram*

**Next Mission**

While it’s not clear when the Falcon 9 is set to go on its next launch, Space X’s plan for reusable rockets is a major step towards a more cost efficient approach for space missions. Previous reports show that it cost $60 million to make the Falcon 9 and $200,000 to fuel it, but being able to reuse the spacecraft means these costs can be lowered substantially. At present, SpaceX thinks that most of the refurbishment the Falcon 9 will require are minor adjustments and replacements.