For three years now, SpaceX has been wowing us with the aerospace marvel that is landing the first stage booster of an orbital class rocket. Since its first successful Falcon 9 landing in December 2015, SpaceX has only crashed three of the rockets that it intended to land, and the California-based spaceflight company hasn't lost a first stage in an attempted landing since June 2016. In that same time, SpaceX has orchestrated 16 successful Falcon 9 first stage landings. But before Elon Musk's space startup learned to stick the landing, they had a handful of epic fails, complete with impressive explosions as the remaining fuel in the Falcon 9 booster ignites on impact. Some were slow topples as the rocket landed off balance; some were high-speed impacts that immediately burst into flames. SpaceX recently compiled the most impressive footage of Falcon 9 crashes for your viewing enjoyment. It just goes to show, to bake a cake, you got to crack a few Falcon 9s.