lol, The vertical landing rocket concept goes back at least to Werner Von Braun, if not earlier. It's very possible you saw a Disney video depicting it when you were a kid, which inspired you. ;-) As tough as it is to keep a rocket balanced and guided on the way up, it's much harder on the way back down. That's why it took so long to realize the dream.
you were just ahead of your time! To your credit though at least you weren't one of the keyboard warriors here who keep saying how "EASY" they think it is.
as a programmer when I watch these things all I can think of is geezus fucking christ there's some brilliant algorithms written by some brilliant people who are somehow making this look waaaay too easy when its one of the most insanely challenging things man has ever done! cannot help but feel immense pride for Elon's software team (taking nothing away from the engineers and all other teams of course!)
You are overestimating the complexity of this. Which is understandable when you don't know how something works. This is nothing but incremental improvement over years and years of development. And even then, it's not really that complex. The software running your computer is way more complicated than the software running this rocket (about 50K lines of code).
Therein lies the brilliance of the algorithms. Without years of testing and tweaking, they are useless. Each landing improved the algorithms until they became what they are today.
+Teinella Guilty, damn, I can't even land a powered probe on Mun properly. On Career I focused my entire science until I have rendezvous and landing in MechJeb - that's when it truly begins.
i love these type of real life videos, people actually doing things not talking bullshit like so many in boring attention seeking media today who just want to ridicule others. Go do something
Glad to hear the DC-X team got to continue the project's legacy. The cancellation of DC-X was a sorry affair. A case of congressmen and senators jumping on a single technical issue (an unextended leg) to cancel something they saw as a threat to NASA contractors in their constituencies. Political self-interest holding technology back decades. That said, DC-X never reached the Karman line. DC-X never delivered a payload to orbit (it was to be an SSTO, right?). To claim that SpaceX's work here is unimpressive because an irrationally cancelled test program did something similar on a smaller scale is silly in the extreme. DC-X went up and came back down in more-or-less a straight line. SpaceX's rockets are doing orbital injections, powering out downrange (granted not so much on CRS flights) and then pulling a dog-leg and returning to the launch site. Much more dimensionally complex, and with much thinner margins on fuel and structural stresses than a straight, mid-altitude up-and-down. Blue Origin's achievements to date are closer in scale and ambition to what DC-X achieved, but still outstrip it by crossing the Karman line and having the capability to lift people (a milestone DC-X sadly never reached). Their future ambitions are closely aligned with SpaceX's, and I applaud every effort to push the tech and exploration frontier.
As much as the DC-X is an amazing technology, it was never able to deliver a payload to orbit. The Falcon 9, more importantly with this booster return, has proven it can not only send *something* into orbit, but it can actually send some significant tonnage as well. That is what makes this kind of thing significantly different. In fairness though, the proper heir to the DC-X is actually Blue Origin's projects, not those of SpaceX. That said, SpaceX engineers did use the data collected by NASA for the DC-X in the development of the Falcon 9. That experience put together with data collected from the Northrop-Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (a series of flights from vehicles made by several different companies) was used to make the SpaceX Grasshopper vehicle that was the precursor to these historic landings.
If this video were a launch in reverse, it would be infinitely more awesome. That would mean SpaceX has found a way to spontaneously suck enough air pollution and ambient heat into a rocket to make it launch. That means we beat the 2nd law of thermodynamics and can save the universe from heat death - the single greatest achievement ever.
can we all just take a moment and appreciate how amazing that shit is? i mean, they've just landed a rocket without a parachute or wings or anything like that on it's feet
And this is the 8th time they've pulled it off. 7 successful landings in a row (ignoring the Amos-6 launchpad explosion because that wasn't a landing failure). They're getting so good at it that it won't be long before landing a rocket is as routine as landing an airplane.
Can't you see the wire? They are lowering it down as it fires some pyrotechnics. There's no way a simple rocket can slow down that much metal, let alone speed it up and out of the atmosphere. Open your eyes sheeple. Shout out to Nathan Poe.
Sam are you serius?! I hope you are just a trol because you are seeing invisible wires hanging from nothing that I can't spot anywere and in fact that rocket landed with the engines thanks to the second law of newton and rocket science, something you will never understand because you are just stupid (sorry if I made mistakes with my english)
Do you ever wonder how its possible we landed on the moon nearly 50 years ago yet ZERO progression since then? We have regressed technically. We are amazed by a rocket landing !!! woopee doo !
Calm is the best weather condition to fly that rocket and have it return successfully. Now why do clouds have to react? It's steam! Try waving your hands in a steam stream and have it filmed a hundred yards away... I wonder arguing with followers of a false religion, the denial of space flight with it's accompanied teachings of conspiracies... It's like talking to a wall.
I found 0 telemetry reporting about how far downrange stage1 was at separation. no engine guidance getting back to the pad other than a "suicide" burn to set it down. your not suggesting the rocket went straight up with no atmospheric restraint to make it come exactly straight down are you? just asking...
Falcon9 is the most advanced rocket ever built by man thus far. Can't wait to see what spacex can do with the even more powerful and efficient Raptor engines!
in a couple of years this will be so succesful that it will get so boring people wouldnt even watch the landings anymore, it will be the usual rutine just like browsing internet on your smartphone. What a great acomplishment, SpaceX.
in other words it will be "normalized" , just like trump is. but jokes apart, humans always want to improve, even if things are going good, we just need something "better", we can never be satisfied.
well you are correct, i didnt know even there was a landing. i just scrolled and seen it trending. not impressed by it but i guess its just a rocketship flying :/
IceeColdGamer you are not impressed because you have no idea how hard it is to make rocket not only land back but land on the exact spot. Just play some kerbal space program to have a rough idea
This is obviously fake. 1) You can't see the stars (it was conveniently cloudy) 2) You can't see Neil Armstrong's shadow Looks like the work of Stanley Kubrick to me.
we all know the earth is a square and elon musk is a clone real one was kidnapped long time ago now the government is using spacex to manipulate humanity to believe we live on a sphere but in fact it's a pyramid open your eyes i opened mine 9/11 was an outside job because they didn't want to get killed in the buldings
Brian De Souza I do have to agree with you to an extent but I thought one perk about the Shuttle was that it had the ability to transport a large amount of cargo into space. While dangerous, that was the most needed asset to make the ISS into a reality.
The shuttle was supposed to be a cheaper way to transport cargo to orbit, since the American people and Congress reduced support for NASA after Apollo. However, if you take the total cost of the Shuttle program and divide by amount of launches ( 196 billion / 135 launches), each launch had a price not that far from a Saturn V launch, which carries way more cargo. That's why the Russian were more successful with their delivery system and still use it today, while the US had none after the Shuttle was canceled.
Brian De Souza all true. AFTER the fact of building and flying 5 shuttles, NASA and the aerospace industry decided they would never build a strap on payload orbiter and the only way to go is vertical coupling of the payload.
The technology to perform these kinds of landings didn't exist 40 years ago. SpaceX has done a lot of hard work to perfect this, but it absolutely relies on things like commercial miniaturization of electronics, sensors, and actuators, as well as the presence of accurate GPS positioning to pull off. Also, it was the Nixon administration that caused NASA to focus on STS. Saturn was killed dead because Congress and Nixon didn't want to pay for an extended lunar program (it was more important to spend the money bombing Vietnam), and NASA was expressly forbidden from working on anything that might replace it because Nixon didn't want NASA advocating for another lunar or Mars program. STS was the only thing that NASA could build that would still get astronauts into space without leading Nixon to think that they were angling to try to go back to the moon or go to Mars any time soon.
We're getting closer to the day when this will start to seem by many as boring and run-of-the-mill.. Just another completely successful and safe SpaceX rocket takeoff/landing. I would still love to see this first hand regardless.. Must be quite a sight to see!
In all honesty, I'm not even sure how this shot was taken. It must have been some sort of tower as it is a pretty high angle, and there certainly aren't mountains anywhere near central Florida to give that kind of perspective. Yes, it was a rather pretty video, and something I haven't seen from SpaceX previously.
I was thinking it was a drone, but the video is just a bit too steady to me. It looks like a fixed rigid position of some sort, although atop a radio transmitter mast or a telescopic view from the VAB would make sense.
I'm not completely ruling it out, I'm just saying that the position isn't changing *at all*. Usually you can tell a drone camera so far as the angle changes slightly or something is different from the beginning to the end (besides the subject of the shot). Even minor air currents will change the position of the drone slightly, even if the visual appearance of the video being shot appears to be rock solid steady like it was shot with a Steadicam (aka gyroscoptic mounts). It really appears to be from a fixed position where it was filmed is all I'm saying, and that sort of speaks some sort of platform fixed to the Earth.
frbe0101 ULA is a public company, and we therefore know that they are making a profit, making them a safe investment and safe job security. We have no idea if SpaceX is turning a profit, since they are a private company. We aren't even sure if a Falcon 9 costs $300 million.
Sure man continue to do what is safe at exorbitant prices, while those that are willing to work themselves to death go to Mars, or die trying. History tends to not remember those that played it safe.
The more footage I see of these landings, the more I realize that I live in the future that people imagined 20-30 years ago. And that is an incredible achievement. This is extraordinary.
yeah he's saying that if this vertical landing video is taken in landscape the innumerable cell phone videos taken by noobs with their phones held vertically should be a thing of the past.
I have a feeling that they won't try that, and instead work on making the Upper Stage as disposable as possible, as is not very viable to land the upper stage. The hardware required to land it would take too much away from the payload capacity that it would be pointless.
The margins are too small currently. You could theoretically make the second stage reusable right now, but both payload sizes and orbits would be useless.
+MythicFrost Yep, and it's the plan. In the future both stages and even manned capsules will return to a landing pad like this. The two extra boosters that'll be on the Falcon Heavy as well.
Since my other comment got misunderstood i will write a more complex explanation for you people. I think that the process of landing the rocket is so well executed that when a person watches a recording of it, he is left with the feeling that it's a rocket launch played backwards, which of course, is not the case. It's the unnatural way the rocket lands which confuses the mind but yet it's a proof that SpaceX is contributing massively not only to space industry, but also to our overall technological evolution.
Watching your rocket land on a small platform on water brought tears to my eyes. You are our best hope to escape this planet before we destroy ourselves. Please continue pushing hard against the preconceived notions of a failed and dying generation, and help us break free of the gravity of our self-destructive tendencies. We have to get off this rock, and fast now.
Who can dislike this? WTF is wrong with people? A few thousand years ago we were using stone tools to hunt for our daily existence, now we have all of this and you can dare to "dislike" it? Really? Just what would it take to impress you? What did YOU do today other than waste some time on RUclips disliking videos of incredibly amazing historic current events that 2 years ago were only dreamt of in science fiction? Get a grip! Get a life!
Unfortunately, the gene pool is still full of people who think the Earth is flat and this is CGI, because they can't possibly comprehend basic physics, ergo it's fake and/or Satan playing tricks with your mind. Hopefully evolution will eventually get that sorted out, but it might take a while :D
I just keep coming back to this video every time I need to acquaint people with SpaceX and every single time I just re-watch it. This is such an epicly beautiful video. The weather, the silence, and the landing through the moving clouds. It looks like a scene out of a movie. So much so that I have to explain to said people that this is indeed real and not CGI/special-effects.
Probably not initially, but initially landing them wasn't routine either. I read somewhere that they'll use parts of recovered rockets initially working their design and research along until the entire 1st stage is reusable. I think I read that the 2nd stage was next...
Of course it is. Imagine this, going to space before we have to dump the whole goddamn rocket everytime we need to get to orbit (the altitude and speed where we will start orbiting the earth without falling back down). This is like, getting into a boeing 747 then asks all the passenger to land by parachute and dump the plane into the ocean. Now with reusable rocket, the expensive part in getting to space is eliminated (but fuel and oxygen mix still is the problem going up in space).
Look what humanity can achieve when we focus on what really matters the sciences. Not bureaucratic nonsense and conspiracy theories, oh how I wish the rest of humanity was as amazing as SpaceX is. Soon hopefully soon we will ditch all primitive things that once clouded our view. Soon..........
*Conspiracies happen every single day, coverups too. (Google: “Conspiracy Convictions U.S. Justice Department”) There are men and women imprisoned in every U.S. state right now for conspiracy crimes and coverups. Police, Detectives, State and Federal prosecutors, all routinely are “conspiracy theorists.” If it wasn’t for conspiracies-such as relating to the fake “War on Terror,” wasting trillions of dollars, time and resources-humanity would have had more money, time and resources for this type of SpaceX science and betterment of [wo]mankind.*
@The Realist, funny how that contradicts your name ;) but I share this hope and the more people get fascinated with space again, the more likely it'll become part of a common goal we can all dream about and work together to achieve it. you know... if we don't nuke ourselves off the planet first.
Really, “only” fraud? Weird. Because I just searched, and the third listing was: “Two California men conspiracy to join ISIS/Islamic State.” I can post numerous Justice Department and FBI press releases from the past few years for you, on conspiracy convictions for, among other crimes: Terrorism, Murder, Robbery, Fraud, Drugs, etc. Add my Twitter and I’ll post tons for you: @WeAiiWin
People say It is fake because: 1) what is physics ? 2) what is school? 3) Newton was a philosopher 4)what is school again? 5)-F on a physics test makes me look like Einstein. oh wait he was an author 6) What I say is real fuck everything else 7) I am vegan ,atheist and I do crossfit so I know
The same people who scream "fake" are the same people who turn to a 2,000 year old book filled with more magic than Harry Potter that was written written by desert nomads in the Bronze age and scream "Real!"
I really haven’t read it, but does the Bible have anything to do with the shape of the Earth? I feel like these people just slap it on their comments just to give it a reputation.
If reversed... do the fumes come form out of the blue and get right below the rocket to turn on the engine? yeah, makes sense. And then it leaves leaving no fumes behind at all. Very nice!
how come NASA could never do this? How did private companies surpass NASA so quickly? Or is this just an example of standing on the shoulders (NASA's shoulders) of giants and reaching higher?
NASA has actually landed a fair share of stuff... on other planetary bodies. When they had adequate funding they never had to make it commercially viable and thus didn't need to pull of the technological shenanigans required to land a rocket for re-use. The did have this nifty thing called the space-shuttle though.
The future isn't going to look like anything, it's already here. Musk and Space X are going to be an incredibly hard act to follow now that he recovers 70% or better of his launch costs by landing the boosters. As a competitor, if you can't do this you have already lost. He's already been flying articles that have previously been flown, good stuff this is.
I think you've misunderstood something.. the Dragon that flew was brand new and had never flown before... SpaceX are yet to re-use a stage 1 with cargo.
There are great things about Elon Musk. But, he is no innovator. He has a ton of money he made from PayPal. He's a rich kid with money who has the luxury of spending it on engineers to do the physical work for him, and I wish him the best. NOTHING for him to be ashamed of. So, we can only hope that he spends his money wisely on projects that provably falsifiably benefit us all. But, he says nothing original. And, no. Not an insult. NOT all people need to be creative. NOT all jobs need creative. Yet, those jobs still need doing. Obviously, so many others have spoken about the horrendous danger of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), far better than Musk has: namely, Dr Michael Mann, Dr Richard Alley, Dr Benjamin Santer, Dr Paul Beckwith, the climate scientists themselves.
People who deny the historical existence of Jesus also deny the historical existence of their own mothers. Seriously, this is a stupid remark. I'm not suggesting you need to accept the miracles or any of the religious stuff about Jesus, but it is ludicrous to deny that an historical personage that might have preached being nice to one another actually existed.
+GlanderBrondurg Unfortunately, It is no historical existence. There is no proof of Jesus being a real person and not just a made up guy. Back in those old dumb days, it was really easy to fuck over people's brains due to lack of education, science, technology. There is actually no personal document ever written by Jesus which was found. Buddha's stuff was found. But we have not yet found anything written by him. No letter at all. You would expect a guy like that to have written my pieces. It's just too suspicious........ Check it out, I found that about an year ago or something. If you do some research, and find out if I'm wrong then please cite your sources. I'd like to learn something new :D
Actually, there is more proof about the historical existence of Jesus than most people of the era. He might have been some minor Jewish rabbi that was propped up and inflated to be much more than he really was and a number of other things you could claim if you want to be a hardcore atheist and disclaim what others did with the teachings of Jesus, but you really need to bury your head in the sand if you deny that such a man actually existed. At least give the benefit of the doubt that he could have existed rather than being absolutely convincing that he could never have existed at all.
With each passing day I'm amazed how science has evolved so fast. Congratulations SpaceX for another historical landmark for bringing the first phase of a space rocket to the ground
Hey, can you please explain how the 1st stage deals with heat from re-entry/landing. That seems like from the video it reaches near orbit before coming back to Earth. Thank you for the videos.
From the video its only about a mile up and is in the last moments of landing. But normally stage 1 is for the initial lift out of the atmosphere, it doesn't reach orbital speeds, that's what the second stage is for. Stage 1 does do a small burn during the decent to lower its speed coming back down through the atmosphere.
I find it surprising how many people really hate SpaceX and want it to fail. It's a sad commentary on human nature that a place as innovative as that attract those who cheer for others to fail. The re-flight and second recovery of stage 1, and half of a fairing, was an amazing demonstration of technology. It was even more a financial breakthrough than a breakthrough in technology. If SpaceX reaches one flight per two weeks that will prove everything that needs to be proven.
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Fantastic, I understand how complicated getting this approved can be, hope we can see similar footage from future launches.
you're always one of the earliest ppl on spaceX videos :D
It sure does look like SpaceX have learned to fly safe :D
It's incredible how much work goes into making something look like the rewind button has been hit.
:o SCOTT! Thank you so much for your KSP videos.
That really is super smooth. Bet you can't beat that Mr Manley...
Watching these landings will never get old.
give it 50 years, they'll get boring
Something Seems Off nope
I suppose they'll be more and more like watching an airplane land, so yeah.. not really that entertaining at all
They probably said the same thing about Trains arriving.
in 50 years we will likely see things even more spectacular
As a kid I used to feel embarrassed landing my toy rockets like this as I thought it was impossible! :)
ricky DON'T STOP BELIEVING!
ricky Don't let your dreams be dreams
lol, The vertical landing rocket concept goes back at least to Werner Von Braun, if not earlier. It's very possible you saw a Disney video depicting it when you were a kid, which inspired you. ;-)
As tough as it is to keep a rocket balanced and guided on the way up, it's much harder on the way back down. That's why it took so long to realize the dream.
That's been practiced in many cartoons, and by far not only recent ones, so it makes perfect sense.
you were just ahead of your time! To your credit though at least you weren't one of the keyboard warriors here who keep saying how "EASY" they think it is.
this footage is what I imagined the future would look like , so fucking cool. well done spacex on another amazing launch and landing
future.. technologically it was achievable many years ago.
It's just We are very slow and very stupid creatures.
But no-one did it until now, doesn't matter that we could do it , we didn't
Who are you comparing us to? We are by far the quickest and most intelligent creatures known.
correct, given, that we created several more or less successful civilizations, but still we managed to get ourselves on the endangered species list!
Infinite Plane Society ah, so now I know who are people disliking this video
I can't wait for Falcon Heavy so we can see 3 landings in a short time.
Hans Yolo falcon heavy :o? Kznzuans
"all 3 falcons have landed"
This.
Hans Yolo synchronous rockets landing, new Olympic sports.
yes!
Truly historic. It's a shame how people like the "catch-me-outside" girl are getting more fame and media coverage than people like Elon Musk.
Spot on Brother!!!! Thx for putting it so eloquently.
what is the "catch-me-outside" girl?
"Cash me outside" girl that was on Dr.Phil. A13 year old douche that kept stealing cars her mom slapped her so hard she talks funny now.
Hans Barrels cash me outside how bout dat?
Hans Barrels you just gave her more fame...
as a programmer when I watch these things all I can think of is geezus fucking christ there's some brilliant algorithms written by some brilliant people who are somehow making this look waaaay too easy when its one of the most insanely challenging things man has ever done! cannot help but feel immense pride for Elon's software team (taking nothing away from the engineers and all other teams of course!)
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Dave Smith Same
Dave Smith they used a tweaked out version of the algorithm they used on drones. They say it's based upon a mathematical equation.
You are overestimating the complexity of this. Which is understandable when you don't know how something works.
This is nothing but incremental improvement over years and years of development.
And even then, it's not really that complex. The software running your computer is way more complicated than the software running this rocket (about 50K lines of code).
Therein lies the brilliance of the algorithms. Without years of testing and tweaking, they are useless. Each landing improved the algorithms until they became what they are today.
Mission Accomplished
- +70 Science
Recovered parts
-Landing leg x4
-Fuel Tank
-Merlin Engine x9
-Grid fin x4
Experience Points
-Jebediah Kerman +2
Next Contract - Land 3 boosters from the same launch. Rewards (500 million Funds)
This guy's a cheater, SAS can't do that, it's obviously Mechjeb.
kaseromaikel you forgot the RCS Thrusters
+Teinella Guilty, damn, I can't even land a powered probe on Mun properly. On Career I focused my entire science until I have rendezvous and landing in MechJeb - that's when it truly begins.
Stop being guilty, you'll force me to admit i am as well x).
Though i learned how to do it manually eventually, mostly by playing with VTOL.
i love these type of real life videos, people actually doing things not talking bullshit like so many in boring attention seeking media today who just want to ridicule others.
Go do something
I remember when people said this would be impossible. It's crazy to see how what was considered impossible is now reality.
People are a bit weird.. We can send spacecrafts and satellites into space but can't get this thing to land back on the ground? lol
The DC-X never lifted 4,200 kg into space on a ballistic trajectory before it landed.
Glad to hear the DC-X team got to continue the project's legacy. The cancellation of DC-X was a sorry affair. A case of congressmen and senators jumping on a single technical issue (an unextended leg) to cancel something they saw as a threat to NASA contractors in their constituencies.
Political self-interest holding technology back decades.
That said, DC-X never reached the Karman line. DC-X never delivered a payload to orbit (it was to be an SSTO, right?). To claim that SpaceX's work here is unimpressive because an irrationally cancelled test program did something similar on a smaller scale is silly in the extreme.
DC-X went up and came back down in more-or-less a straight line. SpaceX's rockets are doing orbital injections, powering out downrange (granted not so much on CRS flights) and then pulling a dog-leg and returning to the launch site. Much more dimensionally complex, and with much thinner margins on fuel and structural stresses than a straight, mid-altitude up-and-down.
Blue Origin's achievements to date are closer in scale and ambition to what DC-X achieved, but still outstrip it by crossing the Karman line and having the capability to lift people (a milestone DC-X sadly never reached). Their future ambitions are closely aligned with SpaceX's, and I applaud every effort to push the tech and exploration frontier.
As much as the DC-X is an amazing technology, it was never able to deliver a payload to orbit. The Falcon 9, more importantly with this booster return, has proven it can not only send *something* into orbit, but it can actually send some significant tonnage as well. That is what makes this kind of thing significantly different.
In fairness though, the proper heir to the DC-X is actually Blue Origin's projects, not those of SpaceX. That said, SpaceX engineers did use the data collected by NASA for the DC-X in the development of the Falcon 9. That experience put together with data collected from the Northrop-Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (a series of flights from vehicles made by several different companies) was used to make the SpaceX Grasshopper vehicle that was the precursor to these historic landings.
It's not over yet. All this stuff makes sense, if the stage is actually reusable (in terms of $), which is still to be shown.
Never thought I'd see a rocket come down from the sky and land without blowing up
clonetrooperx39 then u have not seen SpaceX before
If this video were a launch in reverse, it would be infinitely more awesome. That would mean SpaceX has found a way to spontaneously suck enough air pollution and ambient heat into a rocket to make it launch. That means we beat the 2nd law of thermodynamics and can save the universe from heat death - the single greatest achievement ever.
LOL
No big deal, just landing a 14-story building with pin-point accuracy on a dime.
spacechampion ??
hold my beer
Isac why u wash your head? :D
spacechampion never happened congratulations you believe whatever you seen on TV
i bet you believe in the Bible LMAO, hypocrite
"Annnnnnd we'll park this baby riiiiiight... here."
Best comment ever HAHAHA
remember ware we parked.
That touchdown right there was so beautiful!
can we all just take a moment and appreciate how amazing that shit is? i mean, they've just landed a rocket without a parachute or wings or anything like that on it's feet
And this is the 8th time they've pulled it off. 7 successful landings in a row (ignoring the Amos-6 launchpad explosion because that wasn't a landing failure). They're getting so good at it that it won't be long before landing a rocket is as routine as landing an airplane.
Mmmmmmm but Eutelsat tho...
Alexander Nova Derp. Stupid me. I think I meant to say they've nailed 7 of the last 8 landing attempts.
Hahahaha, "feet"
lol wut If it's simple, why don't you go do it? Oh wait, you probably don't even understand the process of how a bike works
Think @SpaceX landings are fake? Organize a meet up on the landing pad next launch to prove your point, and win a collective Darwin Award :)
GoldSilver (w/ Mike Maloney) Hahaha brilliant idea
no no they obviously just play a launch backwards. Not sure why the smoke rises though! /s
Can't you see the wire? They are lowering it down as it fires some pyrotechnics. There's no way a simple rocket can slow down that much metal, let alone speed it up and out of the atmosphere. Open your eyes sheeple.
Shout out to Nathan Poe.
You used the one word that exposed you as one of them daft conspiracy-theorists.
Sam are you serius?! I hope you are just a trol because you are seeing invisible wires hanging from nothing that I can't spot anywere and in fact that rocket landed with the engines thanks to the second law of newton and rocket science, something you will never understand because you are just stupid (sorry if I made mistakes with my english)
I've watched this over and over again. Losing count already. Love brilliant human beings. Thank you so much for this.
I dream of a future where I can see this every 20 minutes...
I dream of a future where this will be as common as someone parking their cars.
Do you ever wonder how its possible we landed on the moon nearly 50 years ago yet ZERO progression since then? We have regressed technically. We are amazed by a rocket landing !!! woopee doo !
Jim Brock we were in a space race back then.
The flat earth community has members from all around the globe.
John J. Johnington 😂😂😂
Congratz SpaceX! looks absolutely absurd! thanks for making the future present!
Apparently this is becoming a common event. :)
I haven't had this much hope for continued space exploration in a decade.
Truly inspired.
If you had shown this to anyone ten years ago they would have thought this video was in reverse!
(the smoke plume tells the truth)
hmm...like the landing sites on the moon?
Michigan Mister this video is fake as well, try look at the clouds. An object that size and speed yet the cloud doesn't even move or react.
Calm is the best weather condition to fly that rocket and have it return successfully. Now why do clouds have to react? It's steam! Try waving your hands in a steam stream and have it filmed a hundred yards away...
I wonder arguing with followers of a false religion, the denial of space flight with it's accompanied teachings of conspiracies... It's like talking to a wall.
I found 0 telemetry reporting about how far downrange stage1 was at separation. no engine guidance getting back to the pad other than a "suicide" burn to set it down. your not suggesting the rocket went straight up with no atmospheric restraint to make it come exactly straight down are you? just asking...
eL f How can you prove that clouds had to react as you say
It's so smooth, i came.
Vidi.
Vim.
vici
Vidi, vici, veni.
Johannes Espe Saw what you did there. ;-)
Falcon9 is the most advanced rocket ever built by man thus far. Can't wait to see what spacex can do with the even more powerful and efficient Raptor engines!
Well apparently even crazier stuff!
in a couple of years this will be so succesful that it will get so boring people wouldnt even watch the landings anymore, it will be the usual rutine just like browsing internet on your smartphone. What a great acomplishment, SpaceX.
in other words it will be "normalized" , just like trump is. but jokes apart, humans always want to improve, even if things are going good, we just need something "better", we can never be satisfied.
didn't need to bring politics into this.
it's boring already imo.
well you are correct, i didnt know even there was a landing. i just scrolled and seen it trending. not impressed by it but i guess its just a rocketship flying :/
IceeColdGamer you are not impressed because you have no idea how hard it is to make rocket not only land back but land on the exact spot. Just play some kerbal space program to have a rough idea
i think humankind should be gratefull that a human like Elon exists
Human !!!! are you sure?
Fred Blogd lolol
he's a god amongst cows!
Makes me smile every time I watch this. So amazed at what you guys and gals have accomplished.
This is obviously fake.
1) You can't see the stars (it was conveniently cloudy)
2) You can't see Neil Armstrong's shadow
Looks like the work of Stanley Kubrick to me.
Killer Kappuccino Clockwork Orange?
Think more Apollo 11.
3) This was an inside job
4) rocket fuel can't melt steal beam
we all know the earth is a square and elon musk is a clone real one was kidnapped long time ago now the government is using spacex to manipulate humanity to believe we live on a sphere but in fact it's a pyramid open your eyes i opened mine 9/11 was an outside job because they didn't want to get killed in the buldings
lol
The day I decided to become an aerospace engineer and join spaceX on their mission.
we all^^
The day I sat behind a computer screen and made stuff up. (btw Im a rocket scientist)
Unless you're not a US citizen.
fantastic same
The day I sat behind a computer and lied about being a rocket scientist.
thanks spacex, im one of those people who are losing hope in this world and just want to end it all. your making a real contribution to humanity.
10 years ago no one even thought his was fucking *possible*. Now it's routine.
what are you talking about? We didn't land first stage rockets 10 years ago... first succesful attempt was in 2015 I believe
10mintwo if it was routine then it wouldn't be on the trending page
Trending isn't the same as new. Trending means popular amongst viewers... it says nothing about the subject.
This is what Congress should have invested after the Apollo missions, instead of wasting hundreds of billions in the shuttle.
Brian De Souza I do have to agree with you to an extent but I thought one perk about the Shuttle was that it had the ability to transport a large amount of cargo into space. While dangerous, that was the most needed asset to make the ISS into a reality.
NASA does not control their own spendings.....congress does
The shuttle was supposed to be a cheaper way to transport cargo to orbit, since the American people and Congress reduced support for NASA after Apollo. However, if you take the total cost of the Shuttle program and divide by amount of launches ( 196 billion / 135 launches), each launch had a price not that far from a Saturn V launch, which carries way more cargo. That's why the Russian were more successful with their delivery system and still use it today, while the US had none after the Shuttle was canceled.
Brian De Souza all true. AFTER the fact of building and flying 5 shuttles, NASA and the aerospace industry decided they would never build a strap on payload orbiter and the only way to go is vertical coupling of the payload.
The technology to perform these kinds of landings didn't exist 40 years ago. SpaceX has done a lot of hard work to perfect this, but it absolutely relies on things like commercial miniaturization of electronics, sensors, and actuators, as well as the presence of accurate GPS positioning to pull off. Also, it was the Nixon administration that caused NASA to focus on STS. Saturn was killed dead because Congress and Nixon didn't want to pay for an extended lunar program (it was more important to spend the money bombing Vietnam), and NASA was expressly forbidden from working on anything that might replace it because Nixon didn't want NASA advocating for another lunar or Mars program. STS was the only thing that NASA could build that would still get astronauts into space without leading Nixon to think that they were angling to try to go back to the moon or go to Mars any time soon.
pilots: Sir , permission to land like a dainty butterfly?
NASA: Permission granted.
Hercules Mullagen NASA my ass
That's spaceX.
It's their channel.
there is also no pilots, if you put this way is basically a robot/spacecraft it launches by itself and it lands by itself
Relax, he was making a Family Guy reference.
It's OK.
This is SpaceX, not NASA
The whole point is they are landing at a NASA landing site
Absolutly beautiful
Imagine a caveman watching this.
he could not understand shit and would be terified
Kyle Li . . . cavemen are watching, think there called flat earthers
one is sitting in the white house at the time of this writing
jamc666 Elon is on two of Trump's committees for technology.
@Payton ... Elon needs to make sure that his companies are not destroyed in the next years by the moron-in-chief.
I want to say a special thank you and say we DEEPLY appreciate the engineering crews and people who work constantly to make things like this happen
We're getting closer to the day when this will start to seem by many as boring and run-of-the-mill.. Just another completely successful and safe SpaceX rocket takeoff/landing. I would still love to see this first hand regardless.. Must be quite a sight to see!
it has been 6 years later and now it feels like the norm. The hype is now around Starship and when the booster will be caught by the chopsticks!
One of the most beautiful rocket videos I've seen
In all honesty, I'm not even sure how this shot was taken. It must have been some sort of tower as it is a pretty high angle, and there certainly aren't mountains anywhere near central Florida to give that kind of perspective.
Yes, it was a rather pretty video, and something I haven't seen from SpaceX previously.
GlanderBrondurg drone, probably
I was thinking it was a drone, but the video is just a bit too steady to me. It looks like a fixed rigid position of some sort, although atop a radio transmitter mast or a telescopic view from the VAB would make sense.
GlanderBrondurg Basically every high end drone has stupidly stable cameras, like you can't even tell it's windy or anything
I'm not completely ruling it out, I'm just saying that the position isn't changing *at all*. Usually you can tell a drone camera so far as the angle changes slightly or something is different from the beginning to the end (besides the subject of the shot). Even minor air currents will change the position of the drone slightly, even if the visual appearance of the video being shot appears to be rock solid steady like it was shot with a Steadicam (aka gyroscoptic mounts). It really appears to be from a fixed position where it was filmed is all I'm saying, and that sort of speaks some sort of platform fixed to the Earth.
I'm so happy to be alive to see stuff like this coming to fruition.
Downvoters are ULA employees
But ULA made a really awesome 3D video for a Delta launch.
SpaceX still has to do 3D video. I hope they will do one.
Landing a rocket booster > making a cool 3D video
frbe0101 - all 300 or so of them.. downthumb what.. really!!??
frbe0101 ULA is a public company, and we therefore know that they are making a profit, making them a safe investment and safe job security. We have no idea if SpaceX is turning a profit, since they are a private company. We aren't even sure if a Falcon 9 costs $300 million.
Sure man continue to do what is safe at exorbitant prices, while those that are willing to work themselves to death go to Mars, or die trying. History tends to not remember those that played it safe.
Nice work and congratulations to all the people involved in making this possible!
The more footage I see of these landings, the more I realize that I live in the future that people imagined 20-30 years ago. And that is an incredible achievement. This is extraordinary.
All i can say Future has just arrived..
it's been here
The future can never arrive without the present.
think about that one
Vertical landing Horizontal video! If Elon can land a rocket vertically we can turn or cellphones horizontal, come on people.
Did we watch the same video? or?
yeah he's saying that if this vertical landing video is taken in landscape the innumerable cell phone videos taken by noobs with their phones held vertically should be a thing of the past.
This just brightens my day. I can watch this a million times still get amazed by it.
its truly astonishing to see how big the falcon 9 is when compared to it's landing pad.
Fun fact though: That thing you just saw landed is two meters taller than the Statue of Liberty.
Looks rather graceful pintpoint landing on distance. I wonder would it even be possible or practical to make second stage reusable too?
I have a feeling that they won't try that, and instead work on making the Upper Stage as disposable as possible, as is not very viable to land the upper stage. The hardware required to land it would take too much away from the payload capacity that it would be pointless.
The margins are too small currently.
You could theoretically make the second stage reusable right now, but both payload sizes and orbits would be useless.
Good point.
+MythicFrost Yep, and it's the plan. In the future both stages and even manned capsules will return to a landing pad like this.
The two extra boosters that'll be on the Falcon Heavy as well.
The second stage gets going super fast, you have to add some type of heat shield I would think.
Looks like future.
We're getting closer.
It might look like future, but it's the past.
Looks like elon musk...
We are in the future
It came from the sky
[Pictures a 1950's schlock Sci-Fi poster]
Devils don't come from the hell beneath us, they come from the sky
Since my other comment got misunderstood i will write a more complex explanation for you people. I think that the process of landing the rocket is so well executed that when a person watches a recording of it, he is left with the feeling that it's a rocket launch played backwards, which of course, is not the case. It's the unnatural way the rocket lands which confuses the mind but yet it's a proof that SpaceX is contributing massively not only to space industry, but also to our overall technological evolution.
arenosten It's fake.
Chris Bendahonda No it isn't dumbass. Rockets don't take off from a launchpad un suspended..
dude, chill out man. sarcasm!
Never going to get tired of watching this. An absolutely amazing feat, congratulations!
The landing is so perfect it looks like it was a start played in reverse.
Pompelipom33 Watch the smoke
smoke easily added to cgi..and nice try though..
First you call it reverse, then cgi
The best complements SpaceX can get while doing a perfect landing: "It's fake! It's CGI!"
Keep at it girls and guys, you're doing a wonderful job!
Watching your rocket land on a small platform on water brought tears to my eyes. You are our best hope to escape this planet before we destroy ourselves. Please continue pushing hard against the preconceived notions of a failed and dying generation, and help us break free of the gravity of our self-destructive tendencies. We have to get off this rock, and fast now.
Just casually landing a 15 story metal tube without a human controlling it, no biggie
Who can dislike this? WTF is wrong with people? A few thousand years ago we were using stone tools to hunt for our daily existence, now we have all of this and you can dare to "dislike" it? Really? Just what would it take to impress you? What did YOU do today other than waste some time on RUclips disliking videos of incredibly amazing historic current events that 2 years ago were only dreamt of in science fiction? Get a grip! Get a life!
Come on, there is a lot of flat earth theorists, fo ro their cite and try to convert them, if you can do it)
Mostly ULA and Blue Origin employees, I imagine! ;-)
+Cloud VII No edit here.
Unfortunately, the gene pool is still full of people who think the Earth is flat and this is CGI, because they can't possibly comprehend basic physics, ergo it's fake and/or Satan playing tricks with your mind. Hopefully evolution will eventually get that sorted out, but it might take a while :D
we know...
then we got the idea without them
I just keep coming back to this video every time I need to acquaint people with SpaceX and every single time I just re-watch it.
This is such an epicly beautiful video.
The weather, the silence, and the landing through the moving clouds.
It looks like a scene out of a movie. So much so that I have to explain to said people that this is indeed real and not CGI/special-effects.
Fantastic ! Now the question is: will the refurbished 1st stages work reliably and will the process be economically advantageous?
First relaunch next month!
Probably not initially, but initially landing them wasn't routine either. I read somewhere that they'll use parts of recovered rockets initially working their design and research along until the entire 1st stage is reusable. I think I read that the 2nd stage was next...
Yes.
Fantastic SES-10! Now the question is: will the process be economically advantageous?
Of course it is. Imagine this, going to space before we have to dump the whole goddamn rocket everytime we need to get to orbit (the altitude and speed where we will start orbiting the earth without falling back down).
This is like, getting into a boeing 747 then asks all the passenger to land by parachute and dump the plane into the ocean.
Now with reusable rocket, the expensive part in getting to space is eliminated (but fuel and oxygen mix still is the problem going up in space).
yeah boi!
SpaceX rulz
Omg. This is truely incredible. this requires top notch precision. Its so beautiful to watch
I can not believe this is happening in our lifetime, cool!
Просто поражает.Фантастика.
This is impressive. Good on you SpaceX, keep taking humanity to the stars!
Wow, that made it look so easy. Nicely done. :D
don't let this distract you from the fact that kyrie irving thinks the world is flat
WTFworld no it's not lol
Møhamad-Æ what does the shape of the earth have anything to do with this video? -_-
redstone craft guy everything
As flat as his boring ass shoe
Show me a curve. Have you been to space? Space isn't real, it's NWO propagandas! D:
I can't believe how evolved these landing’s look already, it Looks so efficient and effortless.
Ho hum, we see this everyday now
Look what humanity can achieve when we focus on what really matters the sciences. Not bureaucratic nonsense and conspiracy theories, oh how I wish the rest of humanity was as amazing as SpaceX is. Soon hopefully soon we will ditch all primitive things that once clouded our view. Soon..........
*Conspiracies happen every single day, coverups too. (Google: “Conspiracy Convictions U.S. Justice Department”) There are men and women imprisoned in every U.S. state right now for conspiracy crimes and coverups. Police, Detectives, State and Federal prosecutors, all routinely are “conspiracy theorists.” If it wasn’t for conspiracies-such as relating to the fake “War on Terror,” wasting trillions of dollars, time and resources-humanity would have had more money, time and resources for this type of SpaceX science and betterment of [wo]mankind.*
@The Realist, funny how that contradicts your name ;) but I share this hope and the more people get fascinated with space again, the more likely it'll become part of a common goal we can all dream about and work together to achieve it. you know... if we don't nuke ourselves off the planet first.
Really, “only” fraud? Weird. Because I just searched, and the third listing was: “Two California men conspiracy to join ISIS/Islamic State.” I can post numerous Justice Department and FBI press releases from the past few years for you, on conspiracy convictions for, among other crimes: Terrorism, Murder, Robbery, Fraud, Drugs, etc. Add my Twitter and I’ll post tons for you: @WeAiiWin
WOW OMG! That was the smoothest CGI editing that I ever seen. Nice job!
damn its soo hard to escape from this god damn prison...
ratty in a nutshell refference?
*Turns on German* KURTZGESAGT, MEIN FREUND!!
kristenburnout1 dein Freund ?
Hi fellow nutshellers x)
This is so beautiful
Man, what a spectacular act. Love to see it a thousand times. Hats off SpaceX. Love you
People say It is fake because:
1) what is physics ?
2) what is school?
3) Newton was a philosopher
4)what is school again?
5)-F on a physics test makes me look like Einstein. oh wait he was an author
6) What I say is real fuck everything else
7) I am vegan ,atheist and I do crossfit so I know
Papa Bagel Atheist part just hurts man
its funny because elon musk is an atheist
Papa Bagel you realize that atheists are more scientifically inclined/ literate than religious people right?
@PheonixYT you realize that it doesn't matter at all right?
Most of the SpaceX deniers are flat earthers who are religiously motivated...
The same people who scream "fake" are the same people who turn to a 2,000 year old book filled with more magic than Harry Potter that was written written by desert nomads in the Bronze age and scream "Real!"
I really haven’t read it, but does the Bible have anything to do with the shape of the Earth? I feel like these people just slap it on their comments just to give it a reputation.
This should win an Oscar for the most emotional short film!!
we are definitely living in the future
It was done so well it literally looks like it was all cgi.
I first thought that the video was reversed play. The way it landed back with such a control, it's just an amazing to see. Great!!
6 people work at Boeing
Rafał Kukuła I checked. He's right.
Haters gonna say it's filmed in reverse
I live near were the rockets launch and I saw the flame coming downwards.
If reversed... do the fumes come form out of the blue and get right below the rocket to turn on the engine? yeah, makes sense. And then it leaves leaving no fumes behind at all. Very nice!
Bravo SpaceX! I was cheering and applauding all the way. Fantastic job!
Every landing seems like something out of a starwars movie lol
Это просто замечательно
точно!
Theres something incredibly graceful about seeing a multi ton rocket land so smoothly.
It's so sad that SpaceX have accomplished such great things and yet so many people will insist that it's all fake.
F'em
Here's to making it look easy
The engineering and guidance capabilities needed for this are insane, they make it look easy.
how come NASA could never do this? How did private companies surpass NASA so quickly? Or is this just an example of standing on the shoulders (NASA's shoulders) of giants and reaching higher?
Joe Tavarez because NASA gets .4 percent of the US budget and SpaceX is privately funded and ran by a billionaire
nasa is for exploration, they left this low earth business to the corporations while nasa is now looking for trips to mars and the moon
NASA gets 18-20 BILLION every single year.
Elon Musk's entire net worth is around 14 billion and most of that is not cash/liquid.
You moron.
NASA has actually landed a fair share of stuff... on other planetary bodies. When they had adequate funding they never had to make it commercially viable and thus didn't need to pull of the technological shenanigans required to land a rocket for re-use. The did have this nifty thing called the space-shuttle though.
Their concern wasn't long-term profitability
The future isn't going to look like anything, it's already here. Musk and Space X are going to be an incredibly hard act to follow now that he recovers 70% or better of his launch costs by landing the boosters. As a competitor, if you can't do this you have already lost. He's already been flying articles that have previously been flown, good stuff this is.
J. Mucka Fignotti When did that happen?
Lars Rye Jeppesen This mission's Dragon has already flown.
I think you've misunderstood something.. the Dragon that flew was brand new and had never flown before... SpaceX are yet to re-use a stage 1 with cargo.
That being said, I believe the next Dragon mission (CRS-11) will use the CRS-4 capsule.
There are great things about Elon Musk. But, he is no innovator. He has a ton of money he made from PayPal.
He's a rich kid with money who has the luxury of spending it on engineers to do the physical work for him,
and I wish him the best. NOTHING for him to be ashamed of.
So, we can only hope that he spends his money wisely on projects that provably falsifiably benefit us all.
But, he says nothing original. And, no. Not an insult. NOT all people need to be creative.
NOT all jobs need creative. Yet, those jobs still need doing.
Obviously, so many others have spoken about the horrendous danger of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), far better than Musk has: namely, Dr Michael Mann, Dr Richard Alley, Dr Benjamin Santer, Dr Paul Beckwith, the climate scientists themselves.
It's so crazy seeing a man made object maneuver like this. Very cool
jesus coming back
+ganymedeIV4
Damn! You out here burning people alive!
People who deny the historical existence of Jesus also deny the historical existence of their own mothers. Seriously, this is a stupid remark. I'm not suggesting you need to accept the miracles or any of the religious stuff about Jesus, but it is ludicrous to deny that an historical personage that might have preached being nice to one another actually existed.
+GlanderBrondurg
Unfortunately, It is no historical existence. There is no proof of Jesus being a real person and not just a made up guy.
Back in those old dumb days, it was really easy to fuck over people's brains due to lack of education, science, technology.
There is actually no personal document ever written by Jesus which was found. Buddha's stuff was found. But we have not yet found anything written by him. No letter at all.
You would expect a guy like that to have written my pieces.
It's just too suspicious........
Check it out, I found that about an year ago or something.
If you do some research, and find out if I'm wrong then please cite your sources. I'd like to learn something new :D
Actually, there is more proof about the historical existence of Jesus than most people of the era. He might have been some minor Jewish rabbi that was propped up and inflated to be much more than he really was and a number of other things you could claim if you want to be a hardcore atheist and disclaim what others did with the teachings of Jesus, but you really need to bury your head in the sand if you deny that such a man actually existed. At least give the benefit of the doubt that he could have existed rather than being absolutely convincing that he could never have existed at all.
+AlphaMineron Well said.
Beautiful.
With each passing day I'm amazed how science has evolved so fast. Congratulations SpaceX for another historical landmark for bringing the first phase of a space rocket to the ground
Meanwhile N.Korea can't get a missle off the ground
Hey, can you please explain how the 1st stage deals with heat from re-entry/landing. That seems like from the video it reaches near orbit before coming back to Earth. Thank you for the videos.
From the video its only about a mile up and is in the last moments of landing. But normally stage 1 is for the initial lift out of the atmosphere, it doesn't reach orbital speeds, that's what the second stage is for. Stage 1 does do a small burn during the decent to lower its speed coming back down through the atmosphere.
It does an re-entery burn to avoid most heat efects, and also has ablative paint
just incredible. congrats to all visionaries that make these a reality. it is just ..... I am.speechless
imagine in 2030 what the world would look like ! Wow!
gg ez
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I find it surprising how many people really hate SpaceX and want it to fail. It's a sad commentary on human nature that a place as innovative as that attract those who cheer for others to fail. The re-flight and second recovery of stage 1, and half of a fairing, was an amazing demonstration of technology. It was even more a financial breakthrough than a breakthrough in technology. If SpaceX reaches one flight per two weeks that will prove everything that needs to be proven.
Cool vid
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