But they successfully caught the booster at the launchpad a second time!
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The Perpetual MEGA Space Thread
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But they successfully caught the booster at the launchpad a second time!
Looks like George was working overtime with all those real nice holds.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we didn't allow SpaceX to land Starship at the Pacific Missile Range Facility. Their idea of range safety isn't exactly up to industry standards. Fun fact, in our debris cloud analysis, we have to account for every piece of debris larger than 1 gram, then ensure to a 1/1,000,000 probability that it won't hit an aircraft or person.
For those old enough, we can remember numerous launch explosions in the late 50's and early 60's, from which we learned and grew.
The publicly funded space ventures are and will have more of these, but in the end they will prevail.
It makes me appreciate the strength of our capitalist system, with two entrepreneurs leading the US space efforts.
The idea that this could be funded by other than a government was science fiction up until recently (Yes I read ALL the Dave Dashaway books of the '60s)..
After the Soviets launched Sputnik and the U.S. was in a rush to catch up, when the first rocket attempt failed and exploded, the media were calling it "Flopnik," "Kaputnik," etc...
