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Booster B1052 after it's flight on 31 Jan 2022 (not the same as in the story)

SpaceX tested the limits of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket by using a booster that made 15 flights before. The first stage booster successfully completed its record-breaking 16th mission, lofting the Falcon 9 second stage and its payload of Starlink satellites, before landing on a drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic.

This Falcon 9 booster no B1058 was first launched on 30 May 2020, from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A (Apollo 11 launch site). It carried NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station. It was the first crewed orbital spaceflight launched from the United States since the final Space Shuttle mission, and the first crewed flight test of Dragon 2. It was the first crewed orbital spaceflight by a private company. The booster is the first and only Falcon 9 booster to feature NASA's worm logo and meatball insignia, which was reintroduced after last being used in 1992.

On 11 September 2022, it flew for the 14th time and became the first booster to be recovered 14 times. On 17 December 2022, it was also the first booster to fly and land for the 15th time. And now, on 10 July 2023, it broke the reusability record of flying and landing an orbital-class rocket booster for the 16th time. Surely this won't be the last flight.

Read more about the Falcon 9 boosters on Wikipedia or an article about this 16th flight at Spaceflightnews.com.