SpaceX's Leaning Rocket Tower Comes Ashore (Photos)

SpaceX's latest landed booster survived its ocean journey without toppling over and has now joined its three companions in the company's reusable-rocket repository. On May 27, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket helped launch the Thaicom 8 commercial communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, then came back to Earth on a robotic "drone ship" stationed a few hundred miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean. The successful touchdown used up the energy-absorbing