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11-24-2015, 06:37 PM
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Jeff Bezos rocket lands on its butt
This is straight out of sci-fi! Jeff Bezos (Amazon founder) has a commercial space flight venture (doesn't everyone these days?) called Blue Origin. Today, they launched and landed a rocket. That in itself is no big deal. The big deal is how it landed. Under power. Butt down. On four retractable legs.
  Link to the full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/25/sc...and-lands.html Video: The landing is about 1:45 in the video. I've watched it ten times and it's still one of the coolest things I've ever seen! Ray Bradbury, you've come back to life!!
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man... 30 years ago I did this for a quarter... Bezos ain't done shit.
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Really, a tremendous engineering accomplishment! Elon Musk is crying in his beer right now.
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Pretty cool. SpaceX has landed rigs (see Grasshopper flights) but they work differently. I doubt Elon is crying though. They'll get it.
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