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Spacex complete's historic launch by putting first stage back on land

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Main engine cutoff, successful first stage launch, no explosion!!!

Now just to see if it lands. Super exciting!!!!!!

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Holy shit it landed.

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As the guy was saying on the live stream just 5 years ago they were saying you couldn't do what they just did.

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Wow, I feel so lucky to catch this thread and the livestream a few minutes before the first-stage landing moment. What a historic moment.

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Beautiful launch and landing. Well done to the SpaceX crew.

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Satellites are being deployed. Everything is going perfect so far.

 

I think this is the first time they successfully recovered a first stage, too.

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Now to find out how the first stage looks and how quickly and cheaply it can be reused.

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Now are they going to be landing that second stage as well?

No. From what I know they are considering doing that at some point in the future, but it will still be a while until then.

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rip blue origins fame

We've now got three different subjects going on, an Asian fox and motorbike fetish, two guys talking about Norway invasions and then some other people talking about body building... This thread is turning into a free for all fetish infested Norwegian circle jerk.

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Now are they going to be landing that second stage as well?

No. It'd be cheaper to build a new second stage than recover it. The first stage is more important anyway, if you can re-use that then great, you won't have to build another first stage and can use it as a re-usable launch platform.

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I cant beleive they actualy did it. That was seriously amazing to watch

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I cant beleive they actualy did it. That was seriously amazing to watch

ithought it crashed at first lol then when it emerged i was like holy shit.

 

 

 

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What could the other companies be thinking right now. Spacex could turn around and offer to launch a payload into orbit for 5 million depending on the status of the first stage, which we should know about in the next few days. This is in comparison to 70-100 million per launch they offer. No one even has anything in the design phase that could challenge this. 

 

This could be very interesting development.

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They did it, I won the bet haha I mean wut ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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source:

 

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/by-making-a-historic-landing-spacex-launches-new-age-of-spaceflight/

 

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SpaceX did it. On Monday night the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket soared into space, separated from the second stage, and then made a guided flight back to a landing site in Florida. The historic flight marked the beginning of the orbital economy by promising a future of dramatically lower launch costs.

The company had twice tried to land on an autonomous drone ship. The first time the rocket hit too hard and exploded on impact. The second attempt again landed slightly too hard, breaking two of its legs and tipping over. The third attempt, at a newly designated landing site less than a mile from SpaceX's processing facilities in Florida, looked almost too easy on terra firma.

"I wasn't at all confident that we would succeed, but I'm really glad of it," Musk said in a teleconference Monday night, in response to a question from Ars. "It's been 13 years since SpaceX was started. We've had a lot of close calls. I think people here are overjoyed."

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http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

 

Skip to 32m10s to see the moment in the cast.

 

 

Congratulations guys, I am excited for them.

 

 

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Edited: to appease posting inquisitors

I am impelled not to squeak like a grateful and frightened mouse, but to roar...

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The future looks pretty damn cool right now!
Massive congrats to SpaceX.

"The wheel?" "No thanks, I'll walk, its more natural" - thus was the beginning of the doom of the Human race.
Cheese monger.

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