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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is being revamped in hopes of one day bringing back to use for the future missions. 

In a picture tweeted by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, the Flacon sported a mounting landing legs. According to sources, the rocket is in preparation for a mission in March.

The rocket is equipped with nine Merlin engines and aluminum-lithium alloy tanks that contains liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene propellant. According to the maker, the rocket generates 1.3 million pounds of thrust at sea level. Later, it can exude 1.5 million pounds in vacuum of the space. 

Earlier in tests, after the Falcon 9 finished taking the Dragon capsule to orbit, while falling back it would crash landing in the Pacific ocean completely destroying itself. After the unsuccessful attempt the company tried to slow the landing and salvage the rocket but again that too proved unfruitful. The additions of the landing leg is the latest attempt to soften the hard oceanic landing. 

"However, F9 will continue to land in the ocean until we prove precision control from hypersonic thru subsonic regimes," Musk wrote on its Twitter account.

In a statement given to Reuters, SpaceX spokeswoman Emily Shanklin told they were expecting the success of the soft landing for the rocket to be less than 40 percent. 

"Given all the things that would have to go right, the probability of recovering the first stage is low," she noted. "It probably won't work, but we are getting closer."