OT: Starship nails historic ship catch!
Someday this won't make the news, today it makes history!
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
I dont follow this program very close, what made this catch historic? Theyve been catching these things for a while now, is it just the size of this one?
Why isn't Chuck Foreman in the Hall of Fame?
JimmyinSD wrote:
I dont follow this program very close, what made this catch historic? Theyve been catching these things for a while now, is it just the size of this one?
• SpaceX’s 171-foot-tall Starship spacecraft, the upper or second stage of its massive Starship launch system, successfully pulled off an unprecedented landing maneuver back at the company’s Mechazilla launch tower in South Texas. Such a feat has never been attempted in the history of rocketry.
This is the first time an upper/2nd stage has ever attempted or completed it...Yah, the rocket boosters that bump it into space have done that already. They were attempting today to catch them both, but had to land the boosters in the ocean.
I luv this s hit...I think the math, physics and engineering that goes into something like this is crazy. This is also needed for the lunar station planned in the future. Both from a vehicle to carry it all + the economics change a bunch when u can re-use the upper and lower stages of a rocket.
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
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