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Video of 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing
http://uvideo100.com/takeoff1.html ^

Posted on 04/24/2013 8:12:01 PM PDT by rocky50

Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX's rockets are being designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing.

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To: dragnet2
A California based company!

Shouldn't they be immediately taxed for this achievement?

41 posted on 04/24/2013 9:55:35 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Colorado Doug

Being based here, I’m sure they are.


42 posted on 04/24/2013 10:04:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SamAdams76

“So rocket ship goes up about 1100 feet and then rocket ship comes back down. I guess I don’t get it. What is the big deal about that?”

From an engineering standpoint, stability and engine throttling, that is incredible. Warnr von Braun would crap his pants if he saw that.


43 posted on 04/24/2013 10:06:21 PM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: knarf

You just need funding!


44 posted on 04/24/2013 10:39:29 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions $1, Half Baked 50c)
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To: rocky50

Bookmark


45 posted on 04/24/2013 10:46:41 PM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: rocky50

Strange combustion jet...central high velocity core surrounded by tongues of lazy, fuel=rich flame at different locations. Wonder what accounts for that?


46 posted on 04/24/2013 11:02:16 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rocky50
Another great video of the March 7, 2013 34 second test to an altitude of 262.8 feet. This one has close-ups of the engine and support structure/legs.

Grasshopper March 7 Here

47 posted on 04/24/2013 11:08:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: knarf
And the Rutan Voyager aircraft which made the first non-stop around-the-world flight in 1986. Nine days in that cramped thing!


48 posted on 04/24/2013 11:11:59 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

he’s a canard genius.


49 posted on 04/24/2013 11:19:50 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: rocky50

That’s legal?


50 posted on 04/24/2013 11:23:28 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: SamAdams76
So rocket ship goes up about 1100 feet and then rocket ship comes back down. I guess I don’t get it. What is the big deal about that?

I would tend to agree with you but it was fun to watch.

51 posted on 04/24/2013 11:24:11 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: mylife

I think you’re probably right. For the near future chemical rockets will probably continue to be used from ground to orbit. Someday maybe we will have sense enough to build an elevator to orbit. Or maybe a maglev system to launch into low earth orbit.


52 posted on 04/24/2013 11:43:06 PM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: rocky50

Wow, reminds me of the old ‘50s movies, “Rocket ship XM” and “Destination Moon”. They showed the rockets landing on their tail using the rocket motors to land gently. If this is the first stage it shouldn’t have to go all the way into orbit, depending on how they have it set up.


53 posted on 04/25/2013 2:06:59 AM PDT by calex59
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To: mylife

Burt Rutan is a genius, but the Grasshopper is being built by Elon Musk.


54 posted on 04/25/2013 3:51:58 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Moonman62
So is Elon Musk and a credit to African Americans

Is there a particular area in Africa from whence these 'AA' individuals hail, or is Africa in general a good place to be born if one aspires to rocketry ?

What ??  Not actually born in Africa ?  

Then I fail to see either the accuracy or point of any conservative playing along with the divisive hyphenated-American meme.

Not trying to be confrontational, Moonman, but resistance to that particular absurdity could possibly start a ripple effect of language sanity.

Perhaps not likely, but possibly .. and if at least the possibility of it won't start with us, then where ?

While my ethnic mutt heritage is proudly Scots-Irish-English, I'm proudly American, period.

On that basis, neither melanin nor any other 'category' is determinative, only gratitude and loyalty.

And that's the point at which, logically & eventually, I believe our Founders were aiming.

Ok ..  /morning rant   ;-)

55 posted on 04/25/2013 4:07:40 AM PDT by tomkat ( nationalis caterva fornicari in processus)
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To: tomkat
What ?? Not actually born in Africa ?

Elon Musk was born in South Africa. He's also white and a naturalized American citizen.

Gotcha. ;-)

56 posted on 04/25/2013 4:39:52 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62
I thought Elon was a white guy .. wasn't seeing the connection.

Regardless, partial information should be NO hinderance from launching a good rant in here.

Wasn't that clearly stated somewhere in our FR signup packets ?

lol

57 posted on 04/25/2013 4:45:56 AM PDT by tomkat ( nationalis caterva fornicari in processus)
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To: rocky50

If for any reason you can’t view the video it’s also on this page:
http://www.wimp.com/rockethovers/


58 posted on 04/25/2013 4:59:32 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: FastCoyote

Yeah... though McDonald Douglas already did this close to twenty years ago with the DC-X. And that one could fly sideways too. Nowadays even amateur hobbyists are making their rockets hover.


59 posted on 04/25/2013 6:06:54 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Imnidiot

Got me! Had no idea, don’t remember it.....

I’m an idiot...... ;-)


60 posted on 04/25/2013 7:47:18 AM PDT by Arlis (.)
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