Starship 5 chopstick landing

[Rockstar]

I’m surprised this wasn’t posted here already. I could not stop watching videos of event all day yesterday. Pretty spectacular feat.

https://youtu.be/jUSWUwbjTtQ

[mapuc]

Never gave it a thought of posting the story here in GT.

Saw it in the news and yes it is spectacular. It also made me wonder what the future have in store for us, when it comes to space travel.

I say the space shuttle was a great invention NASA should have developed it further from what it was in the end.

If I was a billionair I would hire the best airplane constructor and space ship constructor and give them a task:
Develop a space shuttle, who can take of from any airport and fly to the Moon and back and land at any airport on one tank of fuel. I would tell them to develop two types a passenger version and a cargo version.

Markus

[Skybird]

When they did that first time a few years ago with those two smaller booster rockets, I could not believe my eyes and my jaw dropped onto the table. The sight now again was nothing else but spectacular. Like a film that runs in reverse mode.



However, to land with a rocket this way on the moon is a concept I would not board the spacecraft for. Never. It violates my idea of "solid stand" too much, and there are the immense geological risks as well. You do not see what is under the surface and a geological collapse that a more robustly resting craft would survive, this rocket would not.



But the sight is spectacular.