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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)
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To: Kirkwood

Safety reasons.


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!)
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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)
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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.)
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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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