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SpaceX Falcon 9 - Successful Drone Ship Landing - 8th April 2016 (Original Post)
leftcoastmountains
Apr 2016
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GoldenMean
(49 posts)1. Game changer
Whoo hoo!
Nailed the landing in rough seas and stiff wind!
After delivering air-pod prototype to space station.
The cost to space travel just went down 33%
Our grand kids will be able to vacation in orbit.
Musk's mission to Mars is on schedule.
phazed0
(745 posts)2. It's a hell of a thing, I tell you. Awesome job nt
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)3. Pretty dambed amazing.
As a kid - in the 50s - I was making my own rocket fuel (LOL! TWELVE YEARS OLD and I could walk into a drug store and buy the ingredients I needed!) and scaring the hell out of neighbors and their pets by launching my creations from our back yard. Memories of those days make a triumph like this seem incredible!
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)4. NOW it feels like the 21st century.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)5. Woo-hoo! Those old sci-fi film makers got it right after all!
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)6. Post mission interview