---
title: "SpaceX Milestone: Company Lands Three Falcon Heavy Boosters"
description: "SpaceX successfully landed all three of its Falcon Heavy boosters during the rocket's second launch ever, marking a new milestone in reusable rocketry."
date: "2019-04-12"
modified: "2019-04-12"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin.md"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-lands-three-falcon-heavy-boosters"
categories:
  - "Falcon"
  - "Space"
  - "SpaceX"
tags:
  - "elon musk"
  - "Falcon Heavy"
  - "SpaceX"
  - "the digest"
---

# SpaceX Milestone: Company Lands Three Falcon Heavy Boosters

![SpaceX successfully landed all three of its Falcon Heavy boosters during the rocket's second launch ever, marking a new milestone in reusable rocketry.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/spacex-lands-three-falcon-heavy-boosters.png>)
*\<em\>Image: SpaceX via Flickr\</em\>*

## The Falcons Have Landed

The second time is apparently the charm for SpaceX.

In February 2018, Elon Musk's space company [launched a Falcon Heavy rocket](<https://futurism.com/falcon-heavy-launch-whats-next-spacex.md>) for the first time, but it wasn't able to recover all three of the rocket's boosters — rather than landing on SpaceX's autonomous drone ship like it was supposed to, the [center core](<https://futurism.com/contest-find-the-falcon-heavys-center-core-because-we-cant.md>) splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. Whoops.

On Thursday, the company attempted its second Falcon Heavy launch, and this time it [nailed the landing](<https://phys.org/news/2019-04-spacex-mega-rocket-boosters.html>) of all three boosters — marking a new milestone in reusable rocketry.

https://twitter.com/CNET/status/1116506217239568384

## Democratizing Space

The Falcon Heavy is currently the [most powerful launch vehicle](<https://www.spacex.com/falcon-heavy>) in operation. Because SpaceX designed the rocket to be reusable, it can keep the [cost of launches](<https://futurism.com/spacexs-reusable-rockets-could-save-the-company-a-lot-of-money.md>) lower than would otherwise be possible — and cheaper launches mean [more launches](<https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-rocket-cost/>), thereby advancing humanity's efforts to study, explore, and exploit space.

Now that SpaceX has proven it can successfully recover all three Falcon Heavy boosters, it can start looking ahead to the [five launches](<https://www.spacex.com/missions>) already on the rocket's manifest — and the others that will likely follow.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1116553298176118784

**READ MORE:** [SpaceX launches mega rocket, lands all three boosters](<https://phys.org/news/2019-04-spacex-mega-rocket-boosters.html>) \[*Phys.org*\]

**More on Falcon Heavy:** *[The Falcon Heavy Launched. Here’s What’s Next for SpaceX.](<https://futurism.com/falcon-heavy-launch-whats-next-spacex.md>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)

## More

- [SpaceX Landed a Falcon Heavy Booster. Then It Fell Into the Sea.](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/spacex-falcon-heavy-sea.md>)
- [See How SpaceX Plans to Launch the Falcon Heavy This November](<https://futurism.com/see-how-spacex-plans-to-launch-the-falcon-heavy-this-november.md>)
- [SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Rocket Has Completed Its Final First Stage Core Tests](<https://futurism.com/spacexs-falcon-heavy-rocket-has-completed-its-final-first-stage-core-tests.md>)
- [SpaceX Plans to Launch Its Massive Falcon Heavy Rocket This Summer](<https://futurism.com/spacex-plans-to-launch-its-massive-falcon-heavy-rocket-this-summer.md>)
- [The Falcon Heavy Launched. Here’s What’s Next for SpaceX.](<https://futurism.com/falcon-heavy-launch-whats-next-spacex.md>)
- [SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is Vertical on the Launchpad for the First Time](<https://futurism.com/falcon-heavy-rocket-upright-launch.md>)
- [Spotted: The Falcon Heavy Side Boosters On the Move](<https://futurism.com/spotted-the-falcon-heavy-side-boosters-on-the-move.md>)
- [SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy Launch Could Be as Soon as February 6](<https://futurism.com/falcon-heavy-launch-february.md>)