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Those guys are really good at math and stuff.



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SpaceX FTW!!! Awesome!!!
 
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So what is the big deal? The last two North Korean ICBMs have returned to and landed on their launch platform....


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Awesome to see the next generation rockets. Growing up watching Apollo, then Shuttle, and now SpaceX is great.



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Ok now I am impressed.....freaking coool
 
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My wife doesn't believe that the rocket was able to land back on the launch pad. She watched the video 5x.
 
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That is incredibly impressive. WOW.


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Very impressive!


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Seeing those landing is like watching the imposable.

We should just send that video to NK everyday.


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oh, I'm sure SLUFF (no offense to the airplane) has seen it and is trying to figure out why his toys can't do that


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Wonder what the MOA is on that?


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Wonder what the MOA is on that?


More like CEP, and less than a meter I'd say.



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My wife doesn't believe that the rocket was able to land back on the launch pad. She watched the video 5x.

Well, she's correct. It didn't land at the launch pad. The landing pad is about 10 miles away from the launch pad.


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Growing up watching Apollo, then Shuttle, and now SpaceX is great.


Hell, I grew up watching the Mercury program.


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That is impressive anyway you look at it. I watched the Apollo program as a kid. It is good to see what the space program can do with modern technology applied to it.
 
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My niece's husband is an engineer for SpaceX. She is working on her PhD in math. I have a feeling their kids will be smarter than their great uncle.

And yea, SpaceX does make it look easy.


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How far down range had it traveled, and thus have to fly / glide back?

I'm guessing they have a better computer now working on this than that calculator sized one NASA went to the moon with. Big Grin


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That's awesome!

I'm kinda more excited about Hyperloop though.

 
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I just watched the webcast of the latest launch from Vandenberg coming only 48 hours after a launch at Canaveral. When the first stage came back for a successful landing, there was a smattering of applause from a minimal group of on-lookers. I went back and watched the first successful landing, back in December 2015, and there is thunderous applause from a packed building. Oh how times have changed. But this is precisely where we should be going, where successful launches and landings come more frequently and with less worry about mishaps.


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the reason why there weren't as many people at Hawthorne for the Sunday launch is that most of them drove up to Vandenburg which is about 180 miles north to watch the launch in person

they haven't had many west coast launches and this was a good chance for most of them


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