Posted on 09/14/2017 11:22:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
With 16 successful rocket landings under its belt, along with two reused rockets and one reused Dragon spacecraft, Musk's rocket company has made giant leaps in reusable booster technology for sure.
But an amazing new video from the company, which Musk has touted as a mere "blooper reel," shows just how hard it is to launch rockets into space and land them safely again. Musk posted the video — called "How Not to Land a Rocket" — on Twitter today (Sept. 14). SpaceX's most recent rocket landing occurred Sept. 6 after the launch of an Air Force X-37B space plane.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Making fun...Rocket’s have feelings too.
Your tax dollars at work ... For Elon Musk.
Everything should work perfectly every single time.
I saw some Minuteman launches that were simply just Awww S#!t moments. Unfortunately SAC didn't share the same sense of humor.
Bookmark.
School yard joke from the 50s
Q) How do kids in Cape Canavarel count backwards from 5?
A) 5...4...3...2...1...Oh $#!t, back to the drawing boards
I can remember not a few launch attempts back in the day that were quite spectactular
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Kidding aside, this is what transparency looks like.
The dollars, tax and otherwise, that have gone to SpaceX have been an excellent investment.
These people are wide open, honest and fun! What a breath of fresh air in the “corporate world”. Why hide it, learn from it.
I remember conducting a Customer Satisfaction Survey for a key customer, and the results were not too good. My intent was to take the data back to the customer and ask “why?” on the key points. My CEO told me the customer should “never see this data!” ... And my response? “Why not, they already know this, we are the ones who didn’t know.”
Around 1958 - 1959, it seemed every day brought a new rocket failure on the news. It took a long time to get everything working correctly.
Uhh ... Okay. If you say so.
Carry on.
That’s just the way it was. Inter-service rivalries didn’t help much. But without those rivalries and failures, we might not have seen the birth of NASA.
Ah yes, NASA. What a great concept that attained such stunning successes.....and then it expanded...and got political.
“Everything should work perfectly every single time”
According to their digital math model simulation results?
Dr. Werner von Braun would say, “We learn more from our mistakes than from our successes”.
Right back at you sister.
If you want to get into the numbers on SpaceX you’ll see that I’m right.
We were moving SO fast at the time because of the fear that the Russkies were orbiting nuclear bombs right over our heads. We had the national disgrace of them getting to space first. I remember my Dad taking me outside to watch Sputnik go overhead. There was a real palpable fear in the country.
If we hadn’t been motivated by that fear and consequently moving so quickly, I’m sure a lot of the early failures would have been avoided.
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