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To: srmanuel

Range safety dictates if its going to be a land or water landing for the 1st stage out of Florida — will always be a dry landing @ VAFB due to earth rotation and most launches out of there are going into a polar/sun-synch type of orbit. I do recall the commentator talking about the 24 hour turn around as the refab facility is within a couple hundred meters of the landing pad. Cool times we live in!


5 posted on 12/21/2020 11:40:25 AM PST by DoubleNickle
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To: DoubleNickle

What I find to be really nice is the fact that the main rocket aka the booster takes off and lands back at the site within 10 minutes. Having watched this several times I am convinced that Elon’s team can make the Starship project work as planned.

Mars here we come!


7 posted on 12/21/2020 12:41:54 PM PST by Colo9250
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