The Merlin engine and grid fin will go on display at the National Air and Space Museum.
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In 2018, it was launched twice from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, helping to loft commercial communications satellites and an Argentinian Earth-observation satellite . The latter stage was the first to land on terra firma on the U.S. West Coast, as opposed to using one of SpaceX's ocean-going droneships. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida along with an Indonesian communications satellite .
The Smithsonian's SpaceX artifacts in flight: At left, the Merlin engine at the base of the Falcon 9 first stage that launched an Argentinian Earth-observation satellite in 2018; at right, the grid fin on the Falcon 9 interstage launching a South Korean satellite in 2017.
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