Falcon 9′s first stage from Friday’s CRS-8 launch and landing has just arrived at Port Canaveral. The Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship is currently pulling wharfside at SpaceX’s dock.

As can be seen in the first image, the booster is secured to the ASDS’s deck by straps over the landing legs and a support ring jacked up under the Octaweb engine arrangement.

SpaceX has not given a timeline of when the booster stage will be removed from the barge, but it could be completed by morning. Engineers will unfasten the rocket from the deck, lift it off, and rotate it horizontal before transport to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.



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