Aug. 31, 2020 12:59 p.m. PT 2 min read Inclement weather scrubbed one SpaceX launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Sunday morning, but the commercial spaceflight company pressed ahead with a second mission planned for blast-off in the evening. Conditions improved just before the 4:19 p.m. PT (7:19 p.m. Florida time) launch time and the Falcon 9 rocket managed to pull off both a rare flight path and landing from Florida. It's become routine to see one of SpaceX's workhorse rockets blast off and then watch the first-stage booster come back for a soft landing aboard an autonomous droneship off shore in the Atlantic Ocean. This mission, however, featured the rare return of a Falcon 9 directly to dry land. About eight minutes after liftoff, the rocket made a pinpoint landing at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1), which is only about seven miles from the launch pad. Falcon 9’s first stage has landed at Landing Zone 1 pic.twitter.com/0y5FkVqPk8