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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
A rocket landing tail-first is not ridiculous. After all, that's how landings have always been done on the moon.
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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
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.
Instead of prototyping with plywood and machining metal for the final version, they make their prototypes out of sheet metal and machine the final robot out of wood. :) - Chris is me [more] 
23-12-2015, 13:22
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