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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight by iamcreasy on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:16PM (#19343830)
> NASA killed the propulsive landing for Dragon 2

Are you sure NASA was to blame for it? I remember Elon saying they are not perusing propulsive landing anymore because of the amount of resources it would take to develop and validate the design. From what I gather, it was SpaceX's decision.

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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight by rst on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:40PM (#19343935)
Combined decision. NASA was unwilling to pay for testing propulsive landing, or allow testing on cargo missions, because the parachutes already work, and SpaceX didn't want to front the money themselves.
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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight by mandeepj on Saturday March 09, 2019 @10:49AM (#19346678)
Falcon 9’s landing on land tech can’t be used in dragon?
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Re:SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down After Historic Test Flight by avmich on Saturday March 09, 2019 @11:23AM (#19346825)
No, it's not reliable enough. Energiya considered powered landing for Zarya capsule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarya_(spacecraft) and felt it wasn't safe to land this way.
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