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{{cite news |last=Belfiore |first=Michael |title=SpaceX Brings a Booster Safely Back to Earth |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/news/526806/spacex-brings-a-booster-safely-back-to-earth/ |access-date=April 25, 2014 |newspaper=MIT Technology Review |date=April 22, 2014}}</ref><ref name="bi20141125">{{cite news |last1=Orwig |first1=Jessica |date=November 25, 2014 |title=Elon Musk Just Unveiled A Game-Changing Ocean Landing Pad For His Reusable Rockets |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-rockets-that-land-at-sea-2014-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026092835/http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-rockets-that-land-at-sea-2014-11 |archive-date=October 26, 2017 |access-date=December 11, 2014 |work=Business Insider |quote=''The first successful "soft landing" of a Falcon 9 rocket happened in April of this year.''}}</ref>

[[File:Falcon 9 First Stage Reusability Graphic.jpg|thumb|upright=2.63|Depiction of Falcon 9 landing trajectory for some of the floating-platform recovery tests]]<!-- not all of the controlled-descent tests had three post-separation burns; e.g., some of the early ones only had two burns, and skipped the boostback burn. -->

Space industry analyst Ajay Kothari has noted that SpaceX reusable technology could do for [[space transport]] "what jet engines did for air transportation sixty years ago when people never imagined that more than 500 million passengers would travel by airplanes every year and that the cost could be reduced to the level it is—all because of passenger volume and reliable reusability."<ref name=tsr20140414>{{cite news |last=Kothari |first=Ajay P. |title=Robust and reusable? |url=http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2490/1 |access-date=April 14, 2014 |newspaper=The Space Review |date=April 14, 2014 |archive-date=April 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415115822/http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2490/1 |url-status=live }}</ref> SpaceX said in January 2014 that if they are successful in developing the reusable technology, launch prices of around {{USD|5 to 7 million}} for a reusable Falcon 9 were possible,<ref name=ps20140114>{{cite news |last=Messier |first=Doug |title=Shotwell: Reusable Falcon 9 Would Cost $5 to $7 Million Per Launch |url=http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/01/14/shotwell/ |access-date=January 15, 2014 |newspaper=Parabolic Arc |date=January 14, 2014 |archive-date=February 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216044345/http://www.parabolicarc.com/2014/01/14/shotwell/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and following the successful first stage recovery in December 2015, Musk said that "the potential cost reduction over the long term is probably in excess of a factor of 100."<ref name=cbs20151222/>