A Falcon 9 booster turns 5 years old, and just set a remarkable reuse record

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A Falcon 9 booster designated B1067 has set a reuse record five years after its debut flight in 2021, when it carried a Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. After initially flying astronaut missions and commercial payloads, the rocket has spent the last several years launching Starlink satellites in rapid succession, reliably returning to a drone ship for refurbishment and redeployment. The milestone underscores SpaceX's operational mastery of rocket reusability, a technology that was once considered audacious but has now become routine.