SpaceX Launch and First Stage LANDING SUCCESSFUL!

From a helicopter:



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That was amazing - thank you.

It was so ... clean ... like "ok there we go shut 'er down ... done ... lights!"

Just amazing.

I don't think he's doing it only for profit. He's doing something that he is very interested in. People like him are dreamers and doers. People like him come along once in a while and they change the world. I think it's much more than about money to him.

I've been reading up on this all night now.

It is interesting that Musk's rockets are designed to carry payloads and Bezos' people.

Their little twitter slap fight was funny.

This is all very exciting. The Final Frontier.

So nobody else saw the ufo?

Dreamers and doers abound.

No one would have considered Musk at such scale if he did not have his Billions financial assets to back him up. He is a banker turned space entrepreneur.

His teams are not there simply out of passion for what they are doing working for free.

It will be interesting to see what comes out of this.

He isn't a banker although I am sure he has banker friends now. He created paypal when he was in college.

He made his own money and then decided to do Tesla and SpaceX. SpaceX in an incredible and risky undertaking. Plenty of people around the world have had much more money, but they don't do things like SpaceX. He's doing it because he can, in my opinion. I don't think he set out to become rich with SpaceX. I'll bet he's doing it because he's really interested in this. Whatever the reason, it's an incredible thing they've done.

Astro, this is the absolute first time that a rocket actually landed on Earth, correct?
Seems the right introduction to the Trump era.

He admitted himself that he is doing SpaceX to get man on mars before WWII or any other natural disaster. his goal is mars and his mission statement is to save mankind. Now how can you troll on a guy like that.

not correct maybe;)

Thread: 1st HISTORIC ROCKET LANDING was NOT done by SpaceX, but by Blue Origin in NOVEMBER 2015!!!!
Blue Origin was first, but its rocket wasn't going as high and or fast as SpaceX's

"Regardless of what the word rocket means to you, Blue Origin's achievement is still impressive. Landing a rocket vertically after it reaches the edges of space is an incredible challenge that no one has quite mastered before. The feat belongs in the record books, though it's unclear the exact record that Blue Origin now holds."
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Last Edited by Jozo on 12/22/2015 06:06 AM

This Musk fraud and liar is selling (wants) people to move to Mars(ridiculous)...

This liar didn't present plan to save Earth(he and other billionaires)...no
They want to kill off billions of people (nuclear war) to start new technology era!
That's why he's up in all these talk shows talking how nuclear war is needed.

What a low lifes they are!

It's apples and oranges really. Blue Origin's flight was purely sub-orbital; it didn't need any horizontal velocity. SpaceX's accomplishment was the first time the first stage of an orbital rocket had ever been safely and propulsively returned to earth. Landing the first stage of an orbital rocket is more impressive because its job wasn't to just fly straight up, but to deliver cargo into orbit by building up horizontal velocity before releasing the second stage, then reversing direction and flying all the way back to the launch site for a vertical landing. It required far more power and more precision.

So, Blue Origin, first to land a purely sub-orbital rocket. SpaceX, first to land the first stage of an orbital rocket.

Last Edited by Astromut on 12/22/2015 09:03 AM

Awesome, thanks!

Do you not realize how many THOUSANDS of spectators saw that from the space coast? I couldn't be there last night and believe me I'm kicking myself, but I had family who were there. It was real. Get over it.

A lot of tards think this was fake. Sad but true.

The Falcon 9 can be used in a disposable mode if the payload demands it, but it should be far cheaper to refurbish the rocket than build a completely new rocket each time. Looks like it will at least need a new paintjob each time though ;)

The Falcon 9 Heavy will use three core stages which will all fly back independently to the Cape after launch. It will be capable of delivering much more payload to orbit as well.

It gives me chills to think that last night we just got a big step closer to the above preview video. They have been hard at work building the new Falcon 9 Heavy pad out at 39A.

Last Edited by Astromut on 12/22/2015 09:14 AM

Pretty awesome!

i'm not talking about lift off. what about the landing? what do we get? a short edited tape. fake as hell.

Yes, the landing. People saw the landing as well as the liftoff dumbass.

sure they did. show me a video taken by one of those people.

Faketards piss me off. I can't wait to go to the next one and track it up close.

Question for Astro, or anyone that knows. In the future will this reusable rocket be bringing back astronauts? Or is it just the rocket that lands and the astronauts use the old reentry method?

hey astro, how come musk's venture is progressing smoothly, whereas branson's virgin project (literally) went up in smoke?

it's cos tptb are behind musk, right?

It's just the rocket that lands, at least at first. Rockets generally work by staging; the first stage comes off when it's almost out of fuel, then the second stage starts. Dumping the first stage dumps a lot of dead weight from empty fuel tanks and what are now an excess number of engines. The second stage carries the astronauts the rest of the way into orbit.

In the case of the falcon 9 the first stage separates while it still has just enough fuel left to reverse course and get itself back to Cape Canaveral. This is possible even with only a little bit of fuel left because the less fuel a rocket has, the greater the acceleration you get from the engines since you're hauling a lot less mass. Compound this with the fact that the first stage is no longer carrying the heavy second stage on top of it and you actually find you have enough fuel to get all the way back to the Cape even though most of the fuel has already been spent.

For manned launches the second stage will be carrying the crewed Dragon capsule. The capsule will do its mission and then come back the old fashioned way, but with a twist. You see, all crewed capsules have an "abort system," small rockets that carry the capsule away from the rocket in the event of a launch emergency. Usually these abort rockets are kept in a tower that sits on top of the crew capsule and is disposed of shortly before the rocket reaches orbit. The SpaceX dragon changes this formula by putting the abort rockets inside the capsule itself. It carries them all the way to orbit, and if they don't get used to abort the launch, they can be used to propulsively land the capsule at the space center after re-entry in a manner similar to the first stage. If for some reason the rockets don't fire up during the landing phase they can resort to using backup parachutes to come down in the water the old fashioned way.

Here's an animation of what that will look like:

Awesome! Thanks for the answer sir. The landing looked incredible, but I was thinking about how sketchy it would be to be inside that rocket when it landed. What a crazy time we're living in.

those are the same vids already shown. show me an amateur video of someone close to the landing. and name calling is for people with weak cases.

LMAO at that video. fake as hell.