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Nuka-Cola: Gamma Grape Sat Apr 26 23:27:32 2014 No.6502306 [View]
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HAHAHA IT ACTUALLY WORKED
http://www.gizmag.com/falcon-9-landing/31797/

next launch is the real deal, right? where is the landing zone for the first stage?

>also, friendly reminder that in a few years we're basically going to have a technology allowing for buck-rogers style rocket landings, vertical orientation powered descents. go figure

Anonymous Mon Mar 10 22:22:41 2014 No.6405615 [View]
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>>6405234

Musk has stated that fly back of both segments would result in a 40% payload penalty.

Gwynne Shotwell (president of SpaceX) stated when asked about the legs that for every 10 lbs they add to the first stage 1 lb is lost in cargo capacity.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/elon-musk-on-spacexs-reusable-rocket-plans-6653023

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/AW_03_10_2014_p48-668592.xml&p=5

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