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How NOT to land an orbital rocket booster
« on: September 14, 2017, 02:16:08 pm »
How NOT to land an orbital rocket booster
by elonmusk

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The sordid history of how the @SpaceX Falcon 9, the first fully reusable, orbit-class booster rocket, eventually managed to land in one piece and stay that way ... maybe Falcon realized it still loved us or finally read the instructions...
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