SpaceX Makes History: First Rocket Launch from Florida, Lands on Droneship

Well, folks, it’s official: SpaceX has has flown off to take a tropical ‘vacation’.

Launching a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, only to have land somewhere off the coast of The Bahamas on a droneship.

As if the idea of rockets zooming across the troposphere wasn’t cool enough, now you can add a tropical landing spot to the mix.

What’s next for SpaceX?

They keep making history!

#Spacex #Bahamas view from New Providence 🇧🇸 pic.twitter.com/43J5ZZAQ0c

— Dan Piraino (@DanielPiraino) February 18, 2025

Today’s mission is the first time Falcon 9 will land on a droneship off the coast of The Bahamas! pic.twitter.com/09CmkFPoXD

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 18, 2025

Fox News reports:

SpaceX has pulled off a historic feat, after launching a rocket into space from the coast of Florida and landing the rocket booster in another country.

Tuesday’s mission marked the first time a Falcon 9 landed on a droneship off the coast of the Bahamas.

Nearly eight minutes after blasting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Falcon 9’s first stage booster landed on the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship stationed off the coast of the Bahamas, in the Atlantic Ocean.

“This is the first time that a rocket has taken off from one country, gone to space and landed in another country!” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on X.

The commercial space company said being able to land in the Bahamas allows Falcon 9 to maximize its performance by launching into a southeast trajectory from the Florida Space Coast.

Falcon 9 lifts off from pad 40 in Florida, delivering 23 @Starlink satellites to the constellation ahead of completing our first droneship landing off the coast of The Bahamas pic.twitter.com/teNOH5BZpY

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 19, 2025

By the way, have you noticed all these rockets never go straight up?

NASA can’t land their rockets like SpaceX.

Is that why they all head for the ocean?

Is that why they created the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, to keep people away from seeing the ‘rocket graveyard’?

Bermuda Triangle term was coined in a 1964, six years after NASA was established.

EVERY rocket that is launched into "space" has the exact same arch..they have never been outside the Firmament..the Van Allen Belt! pic.twitter.com/P0obuOySvw

— Richard Reichle (@RichardReichle) October 18, 2020