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chris_gerribComes news today that SpaceX just successfully recovered their first stage, making them the second entity to fly a reusable spaceship to orbit. (NASA's Shuttle was the first, of course.) This event is critical, in that if we are ever to have colonies in space, the cost of getting to orbit has to go down. The only way that happens is if we stop throwing away the spaceship after one mission.
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Date: 2015-12-29 07:59 pm (UTC)That's amusing - I just came over here to share that with you.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151228.html
Never mid Rogallo paragliders, pfui - we're talking Tom Corbett Space Cadet here! Landing hot on your tail fins!
What makes that doubly interesting, of course, is that the booster could do its job yet still have sufficient fuel remaining to DO this! Can you imagine a Saturn booster stage landing like this? (That would be wild.)