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Re:Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimen... by bryanlarsen on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:30PM (#44300952)
Actually, the DC-X did it first, in 1993. The DC-X was the first vertical rocket landing, Blue Origin was the first vertical landing of a rocket that went to space, and SpaceX was the first vertical landing of an orbital rocket.

This Honda landing neither went to space nor was orbital, so it was a similar test to the DC-X test.

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Re:Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimen... by LorenDB on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @12:38PM (#44301043)
Actually, retropeopulsive landing was demonstrated during the Apollo program, both on the moon with the LM and with LM trainers on the earth. Those systems were human controlled, of course.
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