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11-24-2015, 07:10 AM
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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
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11-24-2015, 08:08 AM
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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.
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11-24-2015, 08:30 AM
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more details from BO... 100.5 KM
https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new...-rocket-landing
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11-24-2015, 09:45 AM
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11-24-2015, 10:33 AM
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http://arstechnica.com/science/2015...le-spaceflight/
Say what you will but it was the first successful booster landing. Jerry
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11-24-2015, 01:11 PM
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****, How'd I miss this?
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11-24-2015, 02:58 PM
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Agreed. Very impressive! A launch and travel to 60 miles up, then returns and sticks the landing right on the bull's eye!
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11-24-2015, 03:34 PM
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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.
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11-24-2015, 07:10 PM
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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.  
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11-24-2015, 08:52 PM
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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
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