"Following the successful landing, an off-nominal fire in the aft end of the rocket damaged one of the booster's landing legs which resulted in it tipping over."

A scorched and disfigured SpaceX Falcon 9 arrived at Port Canaveral on Wednesday, marking a rare sight among the routine space hardware that regularly comes through the Florida port. The landing legs stuck up in the air and the melted rocket body hung off the side of the drone ship — making the first-stage booster nearly unrecognizable to casual observers.