SpaceX reusable rocket

[zebo-the-fat]

Blue Origin has launched its New Shepard space vehicle (video, below) consisting of a BE-3 rocket and crew capsule to a suborbital height of around 100.5 kilometers (62 miles). The capsule then separated and touched down beneath a parachute, but more importantly, the BE-3 rocket also started its own descent. After the rockets fired at nearly 5,000 feet, it made a a controlled vertical landing at a gentle 4.4 mph.


http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/24/blue-...t-landing/

Watch the video in full screen mode, very impressive, you can clearly see the rocket thrust vectoring on descent to keep the rocket vertical

[Minimalist]

I'll accept that it is "re-usuable" when they shoot it up a second time.

[Iroscato]

It's a start, but y'all motherfuckers need Skylon, yo.

http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/space_skylon.html

[AFTT47]

Yeah, I watched it earlier today. Nice achievement but I guess it's harder to do it with the first stage of an orbital booster. Of course, SpaceX has tried to do it on a barge which is pitching out in rough seas. With their launch site of Cape Canaveral, I guess there is no desolate area over land for them to use. Blue Origin launches from the general area of Van Horn, Texas. There is NOTHING out there. They don't have to worry about it falling on anybody if something goes wrong.