SpaceX Releases Footage Of Rocket Crash Landing

Looks real enough to me.

Hahahahahahahahahah

It blowed up GOOD!

it was just to spur curiosity so people click on it.

Cool!

Cool to see. It will be interesting to see how they do on their next attempt, which is supposed to be happening at the end of this month or the start of February.

Amazing that it could even find the barge... let alone hit it.

They will get it right, this was close to right IMO.

amazing.

Yes that is a huge accomplishment in my opinion and NASA's as well. Hat's off to SpaceX!

It comes in straight up and down, but moving down and sideways at about 45 degrees. Then it starts to over shoot the pad because of the sideways movement, it responds by over correcting for such a low altitude.

In a sense it failed high up on the approach, I don't think that was laudable with that approach angle in the best case. It has to come straight down on the pad.

Last Edited by Chrit on 01/16/2015 05:44 PM

For a first attempt, that was pretty good.

YAY AN EXPLOSION!!!

Literally nothing about this looks fake. You people need to take a step back into reality every once in awhile.

Regardless, Elon Musk is an incredible entrepreneur and I definitely think they are going to stick the landing next test. He already released a statement saying that it was from a lack of hydraulic fluid.

OP is a moran, looks real too me, this is very difficult to accomplish.

The problem was that the grid fins locked because they ran out of hydraulic fluid.

:youreafag:

Of course it looks real! Why would they fake their own failure?

cool

OP, FYI that is not a crash landing!! That is just a plain old CRASH.

Very expensive test

Musk is historic for all he has done.

"Reduce launch costs 100-fold"

This booster was a throw-away anyhow. He'll get right on the next try or the one after that.

Remember the original Falcon took a few tries before getting into orbit.

That he is making the traditional, socialized rocket companies nervous is priceless. These phat phucks have been sucking off our tax dollars for way too long.

An Atlas V Heavy costs you and me half a billion dollars.

Exactly - this is a huge huge accomplishment, nasa can't even direct a crashing satelite.

this one nearly landed on a swaying barge.

pretty good first attempt.

this will be revolutionary when it lands on a barge.

that was sick looking, the fact that a rocket from space nearly droned its self to a vertical landing position???

that is amazing.

Go elon
We all need you to succeed

That's cool! I watched it over and over. The rocket was obviously not coming in straight. When it hits, it gets ugly fast.

That he is making the traditional, socialized rocket companies nervous is priceless. These phat phucks have been sucking off our tax dollars for way too long.

An Atlas V Heavy costs you and me half a billion dollars.

Yeah, and it benefits the people in no way whatsoever

Plus NASA is completely full of shit anyway, they are experts
at NeverAStraightAnswer and making the universe a big old yawn fest

NASA: We have found more rocks and dust and gas and maybe some water or ice and stuff.....keep feeding us your cash


America!...i mean cmon look at my face...



Would this face lie to you?

Spacex should hire some retired apollo engineers to help with controlled landings.

read the WHOLE thread and see. it spurs replies and self bumps the thread with planted controversy.

That would be wise