Historical moment as SpaceX lands a rocket on a drone ship

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDr7YwRR7Y

This is feckin deadly so it is. This means $300m rockets can now be reused, meaning much cheaper space travel and one step closer to Mars Colonisation.

grammar edit: Historic or historical moment, or both?

Fox_In_Socks

Didn't Blofeld have reusuable rockets that touched down likewise in the volcano in You Only Live Twice?

rsh118

Incredible. Well done SpaceX for sticking at this, it's going to bring incredible leaps forward.

Biggest news since Higgs!

Wibbs

Great result! Long in coming, but they kept at it and here is the result. Kudos. *bows*

Though I could have done without the overwrought whooping, backslapping and "feelz" before the damned thing actually touched down. A bit too religious in fervour for me TBH. Compare and contrast with the landing of humans on the moon for the first time;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RONIax0_1ec

Go to 14 minutes. Actually run it from around 11 minutes in as Armstrong makes last minute calls to avoid ending up in a bunch of boulders

rsh118 wrote: »

Incredible. Well done SpaceX for sticking at this, it's going to bring incredible leaps forward.

Biggest news since Higgs!

Eh… not quite. Great result, yes, but by how much this will actually impact getting into LEO remains to be seen. But yes, a fantastically cool and welcome result and development and one I hope continues in future success.

rsh118

Yeah, no, they'll have to do it a few more times I'd say before I get too excited.

There's just something about a robot rocket, landing on a goddamn drone ship that... It's like being a child again and watching the space shuttle take off!

Keplar240B

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Wibbs

rsh118 wrote: »

There's just something about a robot rocket, landing on a goddamn drone ship that... It's like being a child again and watching the space shuttle take off!

Feck off! I remember the last moon landing(though vaguely, I'm not that old :mad::D) and I was at a Shuttle launch at the cape in 82 as a gauche more legs than trunk barely teenager. I remember the rumble of it more than the sight of it. Unreal. That and it really shifted after it cleared the tower. Way more than it appeared on the telly. My oul lad happened to put the talk on a local chap, who as it turned out was a NASA dude who had been there in the 1960's and he told us that the Saturn V made the Shuttle launch(though impressive) look like a big firework by comparison. Apparently the moonshot rockets made your bones vibrate 20 miles away and you could hear the noise and visceral crackle all the way into orbit.

rsh118

Yep, going to need a change of underwear now after reading that. Saddened I'll never get to see it, one of the world's most awesome spectacles on video alone, Christ what a rumble.

I'd wrestle a greased croc to have watched the Saturn V.

Anyway, well played SpaceX!

JupiterKid

This is a big step forward for space travel. Well done SpaceX!

The sheer power of the Apollo Saturn V launches were incredible.

Capt'n Midnight

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDr7YwRR7Y

This is feckin deadly so it is. This means $300m rockets can now be reused,

remember the fuel only costs about $300K

It's only the first stage that's reusable. uppers are still toast.

It's a small step.

XR3i

i'll take a one way ticket

kneemos

I'm probably like totally missing something lolz,but why can't they put a chute on it and pluck it from the sea?

Also scientists cheering.