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Re: pic: SpaceX historic landing

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
A rocket landing tail-first is not ridiculous. After all, that's how landings have always been done on the moon.
With no atmosphere and no contractors building rockets on the moon for the return home, and one-sixth the gravity, the situation was slightly different.

OBTW, anyone else reading this thread should look carefully at the end of Alan's post; again is not the last word.

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Originally Posted by philso View Post
When will Space X and Blue Origin be able to make their rockets shoot sparks and have the exhaust curve upward as they fly?
I haven't checked the video, but IIRC the rockets in the old Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon landed on their sides, not their tails.
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