You seem to be very confident about your memory of a decade ago. And wasn't the first SpaceX rocket retrieval even more impressive, and a decade ago ? EDIT :

You seem to be very confident about your memory of a decade ago. And wasn't the first SpaceX rocket retrieval even more impressive, and a decade ago ? EDIT : Yep, in 2015. (And today, a rocket beat a record : doing its 24th flight and retrieval.)