Background on the Falcon 9 Launch

Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by mikeash on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @07:37PM (#10781335)

Blue Origin is cool but it's certainly not astonishing to me that a billionaire is able to send a rocket on a suborbital trajectory and recover it. It's certainly more than I've ever done by a long shot, but it's not a very interesting achievement unless you're interested in five-minute space tourism. I don't think BO's achievement here has many implications for space travel.

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Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by fixermark on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @11:21PM (#10781943)

I wonder its implications for terrestrial travel, though? We are in a post-Concord era, after all, but suborbital flight could get you to any point on the planet pretty quickly if the price is right.

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Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by thomashabets2 on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @05:47AM (#10782806)

This may be interesting to you: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/01/why-were...

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Re:Background on the Falcon 9 Launch by erikpukinskis on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @05:04PM (#10785961)

It's amazing in 10 years we've gone from an X-prize to do exactly that to "not interesting".

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