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leftcoastmountains

(2,968 posts) Fri Apr 8, 2016, 09:30 PM Apr 2016

SpaceX Falcon 9 - Successful Drone Ship Landing - 8th April 2016

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SpaceX Falcon 9 - Successful Drone Ship Landing - 8th April 2016 (Original Post) leftcoastmountains Apr 2016 OP

Game changer GoldenMean Apr 2016 #1

It's a hell of a thing, I tell you. Awesome job nt phazed0 Apr 2016 #2

Pretty dambed amazing. Plucketeer Apr 2016 #3

NOW it feels like the 21st century. Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2016 #4

Woo-hoo! Those old sci-fi film makers got it right after all! Jerry442 Apr 2016 #5

Post mission interview OxQQme Apr 2016 #6

GoldenMean

(49 posts)

1. Game changer

Reply to leftcoastmountains (Original post)

Fri Apr 8, 2016, 09:51 PM

Apr 2016

Whoo hoo!
Nailed the landing in rough seas and stiff wind!
After delivering air-pod prototype to space station.
The cost to space travel just went down 33%
Our grand kids will be able to vacation in orbit.
Musk's mission to Mars is on schedule.

phazed0

(745 posts)

2. It's a hell of a thing, I tell you. Awesome job nt

Reply to leftcoastmountains (Original post)

Fri Apr 8, 2016, 10:01 PM

Apr 2016

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)

3. Pretty dambed amazing.

Reply to leftcoastmountains (Original post)

Fri Apr 8, 2016, 10:03 PM

Apr 2016

As a kid - in the 50s - I was making my own rocket fuel (LOL! TWELVE YEARS OLD and I could walk into a drug store and buy the ingredients I needed!) and scaring the hell out of neighbors and their pets by launching my creations from our back yard. Memories of those days make a triumph like this seem incredible!