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Originally Posted by Skybird
Those returning booster-rockets point-landing on their landing pads is a view that stuns me time and again. That a pole with flames at one and lands in this fashion on its end without wings, without rotor, without any visible assistance device or guiding rail, just does clicks in my head and then echos on and on. For me a truly unbelievable sight. Thats sight mesmerizes me more than a landing orbiter or a walk on the moon.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-...llite-delivery
Like a movie of a missile start played backwards. |
But as the Everyday Astronaut (check out his You Tube channel) says, those aren't poles, they're freaking 15 story buildings with flamey stuff coming out the bottom that land light as a feather. We are living in the future and it's great!