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Related: About this forumSpaceX Starhopper spaceship test - video
Wow! This is right out of a 1950's science fiction movie. I thought this kind of simplicity, a simply shaped rocket taking off and and landing perfectly, was just fantasy but I guess it's not going to be.
The main difference is that reality is a lot dustier than it was in the movies. : )
The final design of the rocket also is right out of science fiction.
Rocket Design:
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SpaceX Starhopper spaceship test - video (Original Post)
Kablooie
Aug 2019
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yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)1. its missing something...
"danger! danger Will Robinson! "
targetpractice
(4,919 posts)2. Inspired, I suppose, by "Salvage 1" starring Andy Griffith...
Junkyard rocket flight plan using the "Translinear-Vector Principle"...
magicarpet
(14,155 posts)3. Okay looks good,... all systems go...
Let's launch trDump to Jupiter.
crazytown
(7,277 posts)4. It looks so much like 50s Sci-Fi
it's crazy.