SpaceX Failure

[brewer]

Man, just when I was gonna buy tickets.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...on-a-barge

[mediocrates]

Soooooo close! Seems to me like everything worked like it should but a mechanical failure caused it to tip over after touchdown.  Bummer.

It makes sense that the coolest ever way to land a rocket would be really hard.

[Gawdzilla]

"Well, at least the pieces were bigger this time!" Elon Musk.

Da man!

[brewer]

I'll bet that damn Marvin had something to do with it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuUJfYcn...V4&index=1

[MTL]

Don't get discouraged.

for stuff like that to succeed on the first attempt would be extraordinary.

It will take a lot of pratfalls before an inch of progress is achieved.

[AFTT47]

I don't understand why they're even bothering. They had the one success on land and two of the barge failures would have succeeded had they been done on land. They should be approved for regular land returns - at least when launching from Cape Canaveral. Those east coast launches go out over the ocean. There's little risk of them crashing into anything when they return from there.

[Minimalist]

Some one needs to turn the vertical hold knob.

https://vine.co/v/OjqeYWWpVWK


For those of you old enough to remember vertical hold knobs, that is.

[Gawdzilla]

I don't understand why they're even bothering. They had the one success on land and two of the barge failures would have succeeded had they been done on land. They should be approved for regular land returns - at least when launching from Cape Canaveral. Those east coast launches go out over the ocean. There's little risk of them crashing into anything when they return from there.

As I understand it they save fuel by not going back to the starting point.

[brewer]

I think we have a Walmart parking lot that's big enough.

[vorlon13]