[Vince Ferrer]

More pictures at the link, and you can enlarge them.

[GeronL]

It was a really good try!

[Dagnabitt]

Exciting stuff. They got close enough to burn up some stuff on deck.

I look forward to seeing them returning to port soon with an intact first stage aboard.

[Boundless]

I’m trying to imagine today’s NASA running an actual flight test that had a published, admitted, chance of success of only 50%.

... nope ... trying ...
... can’t really imagine it.

And, of course, what SpaceX is trying to do here was conventionally considered “impossible” or at least “impractical”, which is why we got the Space Shuttle as the re-usable space system (which of course, was no cheaper per launch than fully expendables, and was almost exactly as dangerous as the STS skeptics predicted).

[colorado tanker]

If they can figure out how to land a ship returning from space on a barge that size, that would be pretty darn amazing.

[SteveH]

spacex bump

[cicero2k]

Plain old GPS can get you within five feet.

It looks like the bulk of the booster rolled off? Can’t tell from these photos.

This will be a game changer.

[Rio]

I sure wish there had been video of the attempt...

[G Larry]

I suffer from the presumption that a hydraulic system is a CLOSED SYSTEM….and shouldn’t “run out”!!

[CodeToad]

I still don’t understand this obsession with a water platform and not a land platform.

[Dagnabitt]

14 days until the next try - when Space X launches a science satellite.

[TangoLimaSierra]

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