Amazing video footage of the third rocket landing in history

Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 2 months ago to Technology
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At least there are still a few inventive producers in the US...
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 2 months ago
    Blue Origin is doing the engineering correctly.
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
      Which is illustrative of how government does not. This could have been in the works for the last 10 years and NASA could be doing it, yet it takes private entrepreneurs to do it and do it right. Unlike government, private business can't afford to waste money on "oops". Falcon has had issues, but it is a much more complicated setup, that still has worked well, just had teething issues.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 8 years, 2 months ago
    Blue Origin has done their engineering in reuseable rockets with vtol.design. Werner Von Braun and Willey Ley worked together on artistic rendering of reusable rockets way back when but it went nowhere.
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  • Posted by png 8 years, 2 months ago
    Hardly the "third", even in the VTVL category, but still impressive.

    Note that SpaceX is not landing an orbital rocket either, just a suborbital booster. An orbital VTVL rocket has never been built.
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
      Well this one does something a little different, it pops up vertically, launches the payload and descends vertically. I guess by doing it this way, the eliminate a lot of attitude issues, as well as reentry problems. Space X is going for a much more complicated technique, but both men need to be recognized for having the gumption to put their money into it.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 2 months ago
    How many times must rational thinkers say, "The private sector" before the solons of shitheaditty catch on?
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
      Herb, they will never figure it out, because their fantasy world is always bult around doing things with others money, and then claiming all the credit, look at the moon program..and people still debate whether it was real..
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      • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 2 months ago
        Yeah, I know. They all have brains, why don't they use them? It's like a man with hands trying to play the piano with his feet.
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        • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
          Exactly, and then trumpeting when they can do chopsticks, while the guy with the hands is doing Beethoven. Amazing...
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          • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 2 months ago
            If I'm the king of analogy, you're the crown prince.
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            • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
              Thank you sir. I just saw a YT video (makes enforced ergo breaks go by) on 10 reasons why the moon landings were faked, and some of them are rather thought provoking. Given their performance, maybe they did decide a soundstage was easier to do than really going there...
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              • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 2 months ago
                Nonsense.
                My son worked at NASA and an astronaut was one of my customers. After all the work and training these people went through, it would be crazy to fake it.
                Wouldn't it?
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                • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
                  Herb, I don't know. The extent that some people in government will go to for their perceived needs is amazing. One needs to question why would they do that, why would they put all the effort, money and resources into it, shoot up a large number of Saturn vehicles, and then skip the whole reason? Of course, we seem to be missing some pieces of the puzzle, so I have no idea. But some of the pictures do seem somewhat flaky, the one where the crosshairs are covered by stuff in front are particularly weird, if the crosshairs were supposed to be internal to the camera, so I don't know.
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                  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 2 months ago
                    I was in the photography business for 25 yearswith close associations to Eastman Kodak. I was president of a camera retailers association. When the supposed anamolies of the photos came out, I consulted with several experts who explained them all to me. It was a long tome ago and I have forgotten the details, but I can assure you every question was attributed to either the conditions of the moon or photographic hiccups brought on by tricks of lighting, the type of lens used, and film limitations. I have long ago lost a letter from a consulting lab associated with Kodak explaining all this, and frankly forgot all about it until my conversation with you. I probably would retain all the details under hypnosis, what the hell.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 8 years, 2 months ago
    NASA had a golden opportunity with the DC-X, and promptly screwed it up, destroying the prototype, and then rejecting the whole idea to go after the Lockheed X-33 dead end. Now if we can kill SLS . . .
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  • Posted by $ johnrobert2 8 years, 2 months ago
    Love this. I think the site is out in the area of M-O, SAng, Alpine. Way in the middle of nowhere of WTx. Good place to try this stuff out.
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 2 months ago
      Yes, at least a few people are using money to do something better, beyond making more money and us miserable. We really do need to get off this rock, before we become extinct due to the 1% idiots.
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