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Yup, and then came back a bit later and mentioned the "water landing."

Anyway, that was really cool, loved the multiple views and telemetry readouts.  So cool.

Thanks for the reminder, GB.

 

Posted
5 minutes ago, davidg said:

Ha, they pulled the feed on the first stage landing when its shit got all borked.

I wish they had let the feed go but I think they were worried about a hard land landing....  They lost a little cred with me when they pulled away and just started talking about phase 2

  • 5 months later...
Posted (edited)

Yup, first stage made a proper landing at its landing zone.  I think that's my favorite part, watching that first stage come down and automatically set itself down.  That's getting close to the super-futuristic stuff we were promised decades ago. :)

 

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Posted (edited)

Stuck the reusable booster landing perfectly. Orbital rocket still on its way.

We’ve come a long way baby from the Vanguard & Explorer!

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1 minute ago, Captainant said:

We don't know yet why the rocket aborted its landing, but early speculation is the legs failed to fully deploy, so the booster aborted the landing and bellyflopped into the ocean to save the barge.

Also, just found out that UT sent a satellite up on FH which is pretty neat

It was always a 50% to land this booster. It was coming in way hot due to the particular mission. They certainly have the capability of landing the center core of FH and have done so before. 

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10 hours ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

What if it isn’t a drone ship?  It could be helmed by a sea captain so grizzled and salty that his skin is made of blast resistant asbestos.

 

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16 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Looks like a grain silo mounted on a Christmas tree stand.  But good deal. (Better deal if it took Elon up with it on a one-way).

Man, aren't you the Debbie downer with the imagery thing there...

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1,000 passengers seems a little high but interesting nonetheless.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musks-space-mountain-rocket-ride-anywhere-on-earth-in-under-20-mins-2019-06-27?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahoo

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Elon Musk, no stranger to outlandish pledges, just teased around-the-world flights aboard one of his rockets.

The chief executive of Tesla Inc. TSLA, +0.28% and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. was tweeting about SpaceX’s latest mission when he veered toward the stuff of sci-fi. 

Earth-to-earth rocket flights could carry about 1,000 people. Alas, all seats would be coach, and there would be no toilets, but on the plus side most trips would take only 15 to 20 minutes, Musk tweeted.

It would be “unwise” to let passengers move about during the flights, likening the experience to Disney’s DIS, +0.24% famed Space Mountain roller-coaster ride:

 

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