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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by pixl97 on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:59PM (#40601112)
I mean the old rocket landings threw away 90%+ of the rocket first. Minus the hot staging ring and some molten metal almost all of this rocket was present at both its landings.
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by cubefox on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:42PM (#40604131)
I wonder how much earlier a rocket like Falcon 9 (with automatic landing of the lower stage) could realistically have been developed and built. In the 70s? 80s? 90s?
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by czl on Thursday June 06, 2024 @11:03PM (#40604903)
Rocket landing on the moon does not count? Luna 9 in 1966 was the first spacecraft to achieve a controlled soft landing on the Moon.
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by adolph on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:08PM (#40604640)
I think even into the 90s it would be difficult from a compute and sensor perspective.
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by fooker on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:55AM (#40606322)
70s no. 80s maybe, depends on clever use of computing. 90s yes.
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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by adolph on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:19PM (#40604688)
The flying bedstead of 1964 was a reusable rocket that propulsively la ded and was reused. It didn’t go very high tho. . .

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/flying-bedstead/

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Re:Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico by sc0ttyd on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:02PM (#40611791)
No it wasn't. It was powered by a jet engine. Specifically, a GE CF700.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle

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