Space X

Crap, there goes my science project.

Nando.
 
The payload made it successfully to the ISS.
This was the attempted (first) controlled landing of the booster stage.
They hope to control the reentry so as to reuse the stages ...
 
But my science project was the success of the booster stage safely landing.

Nando.
 
Control surface malfunction....they found the barge in the middle of the ocean with it...if they can just stick the landing...
 
It's like trying to land a pencil on it's end.
Every law of physics is against this.
You just can't do it without a gantry of some sort to stop it toppling over, and when all that mass hits the deck it would have to be at 0 KPH.
Think off all the extra fuel they have to launch, adding to the dead weight, just so they can have propellant for a landing. The whole thing is just too volatile, and ready to go bang for almost any reason.

It'll never happen.

They should go back to rethinking how to 'fly' these things in and out of the earth's atmosphere.
[.... and any deceleration of space craft should be done outside of our atmosphere instead of relying on using friction on re-entry and just fly it in pretty well much like the Space Shuttle, but at drastically reduced re-entry speeds.]
 
It's like trying to land a pencil on it's end.
Every law of physics is against this.
You just can't do it without a gantry of some sort to stop it toppling over, and when all that mass hits the deck it would have to be at 0 KPH.
Think off all the extra fuel they have to launch, adding to the dead weight, just so they can have propellant for a landing. The whole thing is just too volatile, and ready to go bang for almost any reason.

It'll never happen.

They should go back to rethinking how to 'fly' these things in and out of the earth's atmosphere.
[.... and any deceleration of space craft should be done outside of our atmosphere instead of relying on using friction on re-entry and just fly it in pretty well much like the Space Shuttle, but at drastically reduced re-entry speeds.]

Eraser end or pointy end?
 
I missed your humor G - that is hysterical! For those that don't know - :downtown:

I think my latest 'stereo' incarnation has lifted my spirits a tad D.
Just can't stop listening to it.
It's cheering me up no end.
:)

The next SpaceX launch should sound a lot better now.
;)
 
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