Blue Origin rocket lands safely
 

Crap, how did I miss this? Blue Origin's rocket successfully flew to outer space yesterday then landed upright. The video in the story is cool.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/24/tec...ding/index.html

Cool that they did it, but that's a tiny rocket that can't achieve orbit. SpaceX is delivering payloads to the ISS and trying to land a very large booster in comparison.

more details from BO... 100.5 KM
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new...-rocket-landing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZDkItO-0a4

Been there, done that.....

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015...le-spaceflight/

Say what you will but it was the first successful booster landing.

Jerry

****, How'd I miss this?

Agreed. Very impressive! A launch and travel to 60 miles up, then returns and sticks the landing right on the bull's eye!

This was being done routinely in the fifties in science fiction movies. I believe Angry Red Planet was one. I have a sneaking suspicion it was actually launch footage played in reverse.

Seriously, very cool. It makes me wonder how close we are to doing even more spectacular stuff.

I'm not turning my nose up at it. It's cool. Cool blue, in fact. I'm just saying SpaceX probably would have accomplished it a good while ago if they had focused on a small scale project like this instead of actually orbiting payloads and completing actual missions to the ISS. ;) :cool:

Woulda, shoulda, coulda.

Had SS1/SS2 used my solids 10+ years ago, we would have 500 people in sub-orbit by now at $250k each.

Just Jerry