To: Jack Hydrazine
I neve understood why they wasted time trying to land on a pitching barge deck.
17 posted on
12/21/2015 8:38:52 PM PST by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Kirkwood
18 posted on
12/21/2015 8:45:54 PM PST by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: Kirkwood
Probably couldn’t get permission for anywhere remotely close to populations until they darn near nailed the landing way out in the ocean.
20 posted on
12/21/2015 9:02:05 PM PST by
ctdonath2
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
To: Kirkwood
I neve understood why they wasted time trying to land on a pitching barge deck.
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It gave them the data to convince the government to allow them to attempt to land back at Cape Canaveral.
40 posted on
12/22/2015 12:32:26 AM PST by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Kirkwood
It is s lower energy profile to simply drop downrange. Turning around and coming back takes somewhat more fuel. The new and improved v1.1 Falcon has that margin on many more launch profiles. (Payload weight and orbit height)
45 posted on
12/22/2015 12:56:52 AM PST by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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