SpaceX is eyeing Cape Canaveral for its rocket's ground landing

It might take a while before we see SpaceX make another attempt to land a Falcon 9 rocket on a barge. According to Florida Today, Elon Musk and his cohorts have decided try ground landing next time. The publication even says that they've already leased a landing site at Cape Canaveral from the Air Force and painted it with a big, fat X to mark the spot. SpaceX's previous attempts to perch its rocket on an ocean platform were almost successful but ultimately ended in disappointment. It's very much possible that the company's abandoning its barge-landing plans for now, as Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin has recently managed to guide its rocket safely back to Earth.

That said, Blue Origin's reusable rocket only reached the edge of space during its test flight -- it is a suborbital vehicle, after all -- whereas Falcon 9 was designed to carry payload and passengers to orbit, which is much farther away. In his tweets after congratulating Bezos, Musk explained how much more difficult it is to steer a rocket that came from a location beyond suborbital space back home. He also hinted that a "land landing" is part of his company's plans, though SpaceX hasn't confirmed anything yet.