If all goes well, SpaceX could make history as it reportedly will try a rocket landing on solid ground for the first time this month.
Earlier this week, Florida Today reported SpaceX will attempt to land a Falcon 9 booster back at Cape Canaveral.
"Their plan is to try to land (the next booster) out here on the Cape-side," NASA's Commercial Crew Program's Carol Scott said, as quoted by the publication.
Back in October, Franchise Herald reported some are expecting the Hawthorne, Calif-based company to have another go at rocket landing.
Before the Falcon 9 launch failure back in June, SpaceX had already attempted to land and recover the first stage of its rocket on a floating platform out in the Atlantic Ocean twice, according to Scientific American.
"Both times, the landing failed in the final seconds, resulting in the booster hitting the platform and exploding," the website said.
SpaceX's alleged attempt at rocket landing on solid ground comes a few weeks after Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin successfully landed its New Shepard suborbital rocket, as Florida Today pointed out.
"It's very much possible that the company's abandoning its barge-landing plans for now, as [Blue Origin] has recently managed to guide its rocket safely back to Earth," Engadget said.
While CEO Elon Musk congratulated Bezos and his company on the feat, he was quick to point out that his company is working towards a more difficult goal.
Getting to space needs ~Mach 3, but GTO orbit requires ~Mach 30. The energy needed is the square, i.e. 9 units for space and 900 for orbit.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2015
Although SpaceX has yet to confirm or even comment on its alleged rocket landing plans, Musk teased an "orbital land landing" is in the works.
Florida Today said SpaceX is more confident it can successfully land its rocket on solid ground as opposed to "an unstable target bobbing in the ocean."
That said, Gizmodo thinks the spacefaring company could also be motivated by its rival's recent success.
