SpaceX recovered booster on display

Credit: Gene Blevins/LA Daily News

SpaceX recently raised one of their flown boosters, from ORBCOMM-2, on permanent display in front of their HQ in Hawthorne, California. This stage launched 11 satellites into orbit and returned back to the land site at a landing pad using precision landing and trajectory algorithms. While going through multiple engine

relights and shutdowns and undergoing intense reentry speeds through the Earth's atmosphere, the booster landed back at Cape Canaveral, Florida at Landing Complex 1. When a first stage booster lands, it's covered in soot and gives it a cool look shown on the image to the left. This soot is formed on the body from flying through its own exhaust while doing reentry and landing burns. After washing up the booster, it was transported back to SpaceX's HQ in Hawthorne and waited to be lifted onto display. People watched as cranes lifted the booster into an upright position and attached the legs soon after.