Chris Murphy
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400 rocket scientists watch their rocket successfully land
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Why?
This was definitely awesome, and a great achievement, but it's not really a crucial step toward Mars nor is it very usefully comparable to SpaceX's efforts to land their reusable rocket.
LucidMomentum
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It launched, reached altitude, fell back down to earth, and then landed perfectly as it had left.
It'll be reusable.
It landed from space. While it doesn't have even half of the delta v budget as what SpaceX is attempting, it still landed upright all the way from space. It's the first time a rocket's bottom stage has landed successfully back on earth soil from space.
Wyndstryker
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I had the same feeling after doing my first powered landing in Kerbal Space Program.
It's stupidly hard in a game, how much more IRL.
It's stupidly hard in a game, how much more IRL.
Fenderputty
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Cooliest thing I've seen today.
After all the shit that's been going on, I needed this. Totally fuckin' epic
Fenderputty
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Yeah it's a phenomenal accomplishment and a huge step for mankind and space exploration. Reducing costs of space launch to that of fuel will be amazing. Great reaction video on top of it.
I'm genuinely positively affected by this. Good vibes, man
SilentRacoon
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Incredible stuff, I can feel the joy coming out of my screen, all that hard work coming to fruition in front of you.
The company behind this, Blue Origin, is the child of Jeff Bezos who is the founder of Amazon.
What is it with rocket scientists and bad high five?
Dammit guys, that shit ain't rocket science.
lol
Jack The Nipper
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I'd feel much more safe landing on a shuttle than thinking of landing on this thing.
I feel the idea overall isn't what is needed for space travel..
Need a new ship type.
I feel the idea overall isn't what is needed for space travel..
Need a new ship type.
The Last Emperor
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Inb4 "it's only white people"
That's because you're used to landing in planes/seeing landings in planes. All that's needed is for people to get used to this style landing.
CarpeDeezNutz
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Dude, just give me the broad strokes I want to make sure I can celebrate with these nerds without some false cinnamon candles.
Fenderputty
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Wouldn't the shuttle land separate? The rocket is the engine that takes then shuttle to orbit before detaching and landing itself, no?
Crash55118
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PSY・S;187838421 said:
I'd feel much safer landing in a capsule then a shuttle.
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Isn't what is needed? Heck yes, it's fucking needed if you want humans on bloody Mars!
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Exciting times, makes me want to thrust a giant white phallic object into the air too
I know, but why does this make it more likely Blue Origin is going to get us to Mars? This rocket isn't really anything like what we need to make those kinds of trips and as far as I know is designed to bring people into sub orbital space.
This is just for recovery right now. Not thinking about chancing human lives on this VTOL stuff just yet. Parachutes and boosters work well enough for human craft.
Blue origin absolutely, positively won't be the first to Mars. Their goal is space tourism and that's about it. Maybe some contracts and whatnot for satellites but Mars is not their agenda.
titiklabingapat
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That's freaking amazing. It really does look like a controlled crash!
Fallout-NL
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Fantastic.
Until we discover the technology to make a new ship type viable, this is what is needed for cost and keeping up with the tyranny of the mass equation.
This is Blue Origin, it's Jeff Bezos' company, not Elon Musk.
Also, Elon Musk might go down in history as a pioneer of commercial space flight (I sure hope so), but I don't think he's going to be a major reason behind what we do in space exploration, which for now is still mostly driven by government agencies (and mostly NASA).
If you talk about the tyranny of the mass, this is actually not helping, since you need to carry the fuel you need to land on the way up.
The main advantage of this technology is quick re-launching.
Because you've just watched a video showing the unbridled joy of a group of people who've probably dedicated their lives to something over a long period of time, and we're empathetic creatures.
It's awesome really.
Wow, that ESA one. That woman deserves to be that excited, no need to try to be serious!
Also, first time I've ever heard anyone saying "yay" IRL.
WordsintheWater
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That just made me so happy
Sounds like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what this type of rocket is actually for. It is not meant to land people. So it doesn't really matter how safe you feel because you'll never be on it when it lands. It's for being able to reuse rocket stages. A rocket is a very large cost of getting something into space and up until now they couldn't really be reused. Basically after getting up to space the rockets would be scrap. So being able to land a rocket back to earth and reusing it (without too much cost in repairs) will reduce the cost of space travel by a significant amount.
Cheaper space travel means more human activity in space. Which in turn could mean more rapid development of space technologies.
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