INTERESTING: CRS-3 Falcon 9 first stage to sport legs and attempt a soft splashdown.

Way back in the 1950's I was a big fan of the Tom Corbett Space Cadet science fiction juveniles, where 'spaceships' routinely took off and landed vertically, much in the way a car parks in a parking lot today. From a purely rocket perspective, it's looking like we're approaching the 50's.