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This doesn't feel like that much of an accomplishment relatively speaking. It's a smallish rocket that went up and down. Very far away from landing something 100 times heavier from orbit.


Nobody is propulsively landing anything from orbit yet. (Dragon is supposedly capable of it, as a backup if the chutes fail, but has never done so.)


Starship is already pretty much there (almost-orbit and water splash)


They've had three failures since those earlier successes, and while I expect they'll get it eventually I wouldn't count them as doing it yet.

Besides SpaceX, its also being worked on by Rocket Lab, Stoke, maybe Blue Origin, and too many Chinese companies to count.




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