SpaceX’s ambitions are nothing if not oversized. Not content with just trying to come back from the June failure of its Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX will also try to return that booster to land for the first time later this month. The rocket company twice tried to land its Falcon 9 booster, without success, on a seaborne platform.

The company has not confirmed its intent, but NASA officials said that SpaceX will try to return the booster of its next rocket launch at a Cape Canaveral location it has designated Landing Complex 1. “Their plan is to try to land (the next booster) out here on the Cape-side,” Carol Scott of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program told Florida Today. The landing attempt is contingent upon SpaceX obtaining regulatory clearance from the US Air Force, which manages Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX officials have described the company’s two water landing attempts on an autonomous drone ship as “practice” for land-based return efforts. The company hopes to eventually make its Falcon 9 boosters reusable, a step that could slash its launch costs by more than half as most of the expense in any launch is in the hardware rather than fuel.

That is a goal shared by other new space companies as well. In November a competitor, Blue Origin, successfully launched and landed its own booster and spacecraft, New Shepard. SpaceX founder Elon Musk congratulated Blue Origin but noted that New Shepard’s suborbital flight and smaller engines had an easier task than the Falcon 9 with its nine larger and more powerful engines. Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos disagreed.

SpaceX has spent much of the second half of 2015 recovering from the June 28th failure of the second stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. An investigation attributed the failure to a strut inside the second stage’s liquid oxygen tank. A launch date for its return to flight, a mission that will launch 11 Orbcomm satellites into space, has not been finalized, but the company is targeting December 15th.