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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,489 posts)
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 11:17 AM Nov 2015

Bezos’s Blue Origin successfully brings spent rocket back to earth

I posted the news account in LBN, but the video is worth a look-see. Some of it is a simulation, but when you get to the end and watch the rocket make a successful landing, that's all real. The landing speed, 4.4 miles per hour, is about the top speed at which railroad cars are coupled.

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Bezos’s Blue Origin successfully brings spent rocket back to earth (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2015 OP
uhhhhhh... SoapBox Nov 2015 #1
OH ONE PERCENTERS!!! Plucketeer Nov 2015 #2
Very nice; not even NASA; can manage that one yet zebonaut Nov 2015 #3
 

Plucketeer

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2. OH ONE PERCENTERS!!!
Tue Nov 24, 2015, 01:18 PM
Nov 2015

Something new to add to your "bucket list" while living your conspicuous consumption lifestyles.

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