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SPACEX DOES IT!! SAFE LANDING ON THE BARGE
SpaceX ^
| 4/8/16
Posted on 04/08/2016 1:55:46 PM PDT by hoagy62
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aerospace; falcon9; nasa; spacex
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To: Red Badger
They landed the first stage. That is the expensive part that usually goes in the drink.
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:09:53 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
To: Kegger
What are you, some kind of rocket surgeon?
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:10:18 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Vermont Lt
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:10:26 PM PDT
by
alancarp
(There are not enough laxatives in the world to cure that what ails Democrats.)
To: Red Badger
“Seems like an unmanned shuttle-type drone would be easier to do...............”
It wouldn’t work well as the first stage of a multistage rocket. This technology will be very reliable in the future, and will drop the cost per pound to orbit to as little as a tenth of what it is now.
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:11:02 PM PDT
by
PreciousLiberty
(Cruz or Trump '16! JUST NOT A DEM!!!)
To: tet68
What are you, some kind of rocket surgeon? No silly, he's a brain scientist.
To: hoagy62
But only government can do this private industry is incapable. sarc
How many failures did NASA have? There are numerous videos of rocket explosions.
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:11:48 PM PDT
by
rey
To: iowamark
What is your point exactly?
To: al baby
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:14:11 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Ted is the invisible man. When you consider his qualifications, he fades away. Look through Ted.)
To: Red Badger
Or try again. What is it in people that so frustrates them that they have to throw rocks when people succeed? Jealousy?
They should have tried the barge near the marge of lake lebarge.
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:14:29 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: alancarp
Thank you. Quite amazing to me...
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:17:13 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Ted is the invisible man. When you consider his qualifications, he fades away. Look through Ted.)
To: al baby
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:18:38 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: hoagy62
If landing a booster rocket on a potentially pitching barge is useful... why not land a booster rocket on something more stable like land? Just wondering. How about some kind of super structure ringing the landing spot, so as to brace the rocket if it lurched/leaned/faltered? Seems like a practical option.
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:18:53 PM PDT
by
freepersup
(Patrolling the waters off Free Republic one dhow at a time.)
To: DoughtyOne
From the second season judging by the costume. The “coffee, tea, or me” era as I recall from her talking about BR at a DragonCon panel.
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:20:30 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: wally_bert
Yep,we know we’re getting; she was born in 1950.
To: 4rcane
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I watched this 'LIVE'. UNBELIEVABLY PROUD OF MY COUNTRY! This took me back to the successes of the Apollo missions. America is great IN SPITE OF 0dungheap.
To: rey
They wouldn’t be doing this without got money
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:21:25 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: iowamark
Some of us are old enough to remember that we would have been first to orbit a satellite if the Vanguard hadn’t collapsed back onto the launch pad and exploded.
Vanguard. Three launches out of 11 succeed.
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:21:40 PM PDT
by
null and void
("when authority began inspiring contempt, it had stopped being authority" ~ H. Beam Piper)
To: House Atreides; hoagy62
FINALLY! Good news.Don't you mean FIMNALLY? ;)
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posted on
04/08/2016 2:21:49 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: CivilWarBrewing
How is this done with a barge, bobbing up and down in the ocean? Still can’t believe it but I watched it with my own eyes.
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