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- Beeswax-3
My question is these landings are pretty impressive, but they are all done on earth's gravity.
If these rockets are not going to land anywhere else than earth, then it seems to me that these innovations might as well targeted towards military.
What is the final goal here? Mars landing?
- ernexbcn0
^ that was amazing, the stage one landing was perfect.
- BusterBoy-1
Thought Bezos was a bit classier than resorting to this tripe.
- inv4
Lol to this clown. He is getting torn appart on twitter
@JeffBezos
Congrats @SpaceX on landing Falcon's suborbital booster stage. Welcome to the club!
- inv0
http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
Tonight it will happen! Launch in ~40 mins
- inv0
What spacex is doing is way different. They are sending much heavier stuff to orbit (vs just space/ straight up) and landing. Requires 10 times the speed, 100 times the energy.
Also, they already acheived "suborbital" flights and landings, just not as high...
- Should say earth orbit and beyond (mars etc with the new falcon heavy)inv
- imagineallthepeople0
- (not spacex)monospaced
- I was sent this earlier, by a complete non-nerd friend. BO's PR dept is fucking useless - I've not seen this on ANY of my feeds today, otehrwise.detritus
- I saw it on Wiredmonospaced
- wow. they did it! how much?uan
- SpaceX has yet to pull this off.monospaced
- https://www.youtube.…nb
- (better vid)nb
- inv1
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COku…
Looks like something from a Stanley Kubrick production!
- All that's missing is the PanAm logo.face_melter
- Nothing says innovation...
like a Nike swoosh logo!utopian
- detritus0
I'm too stupid to understand a quarter of this, but still, makes for some nice nerd reading..
- inv0
- docpoz0
shit.
- inv0
Thats too bad
- detritus0
oh. shit?
- what happened??inv
- Looked like it blew up.islandbridge
- I think it blew. Need to rewind, but there was some weirdness no the nose around MaxQ, a wee while before.. whatever happened.detritus
- Around 1:14, when the noise interference kicks in, there are two bright points on the nose cone.detritus