2/19/17 SpaceX successfully lands first-stage Falcon rocket back at Cape Canaveral [not ocean barge]

[Hamartia Antidote]

http://www.gadgetconcept.com/spacex...irst-stage-falcon-9-rocket-at-cape-canaveral/

Success all around for today’s SpaceX mission. The company successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft that is on its way to the International Space Station. SpaceX also successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral.

The weather was cloudy but it looks like it wasn’t enough to stop SpaceX from launching a rocket. At 9:39 ET, the Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A.

While this name might not sound familiar, the Apollo 11 mission used this launch complex to send the first humans to the Moon back in 1969. This is the first time this launch complex is used since the 2011 Space Shuttle launch.

Engine firing slowing the rocket down for a perfectly soft landing.

Wow just like out of a sci-fi movie. Also shows how huge it is (15 stories) as it dwarfs the nearby treeline.

 

[Blue Marlin]

watched it live.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[Providence]

Attention ! A new era in space age beckons !

 

[kadamba-warrior]

Attention ! A new era in space age beckons !

A fantastically complicated maneuver even for Jet fighters not so long ago, now being accomplished with far more unwieldy Rockets! Simply amazing stuff! I really wish we can clone a 100 Musk's simply for his vision.

Does the rocket fly backwards all it's way down?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Attention ! A new era in space age beckons !

Certainly SpaceX has raised the bar

Does the rocket fly backwards all it's way down?

It turns around and heads back to the landing area and then comes down engines first.

Falcon Heavy animation but uses the same principle

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

This would allow people to land on ICY moons where there may be under sea life

High potential