Space Daily August 23, 2026 • 23:37

Falcon 9 booster B1067 was originally built around a goal of at least ten flights without major refurbishment. It has now launched and landed 36 times in barely five years—only three flights short of the 39 missions Space Shuttle Discovery accumulated across it - Space Daily

B1067's 36 flights show how Block 5 moved beyond its original ten-flight maintenance goal, but comparing the first stage with Discovery requires care about what each vehicle did.

On 3 June 2021, a clean white Falcon 9 lifted NASA’s CRS-22 cargo mission from Kennedy Space Center. The first stage was new. NASA’s live account made a point of saying so, then showed the booster la… [+12783 chars]

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Falcon 9 booster B1067 was originally built around a goal of at least ten flights without major refurbishment. It has now launched and landed 36 times in barely five years—only three flights short of the 39 missions Space Shuttle Discovery accumulated across it - Space Daily

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