Another perfect boost from Falcon 9 tonight. They kept the onboard camera looking down for the entire last portion of recovery. We got to see it go transonic through the cloud base and stick a perfect landing. I haven't seen every landing, but this was by far the best imagery I've seen so far.

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The vapor passing through the grid fins while it came through the clouds was pretty cool

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I totally forgot about this. I need to check and see if I can find a video of the flight online to watch later tonight.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-gLOsDjE3E

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David Stribling
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Thanks for the link...some very nice live-linked imagery certainly!

Earl

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Wow, and yes thanks for the link! Excellent video there.
I agree the vapor From the clouds passing through the grid fins was really cool

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I just watched. Indeed, very impressive!

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Yes, very impressive video of the flight. I was particularly impressed that while flying (falling?) back, the camera view showed the white contrail formed during boost. It took me a moment to realize what the white spot was until I realized that it was the contrail and not a natural cloud.

Chas

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When I first saw it I thought, how could a piece of debris that looked like ice or insulation be falling as fast as the booster and stay in camera view? Then the slightly pixelated image cleared and I realized it was the contrail. That's the pitfall of poor wi-fi at the fire station.

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Space-X had another successful launch Yesterday, the one that was scrubbed due to weather on the same day that the above Falcon-9 flew. It was the 60th successful recovery of their Falcon 9 boosters, this time landing on the recovery barge. While space will never be "routine" in our lifetimes, Space-X is pushing as close to it as they can get.

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