Serge Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 This is awesome. Scientists and Engineers are the future! Story and video here too... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35157782 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jambo1998 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Now that's impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo-Jimbo Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Thunderbirds are go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quartex Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 As impressive as this all is, we could be spending its budget on things that matter such as infrastructure and education. Not serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masonic Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 funny how in the 60s the could do all this without problems but not now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Boy Named Crow Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 funny how in the 60s the could do all this without problems but not now One day we'll go to the moon, for serious, and they'll have to pretend like it's no big deal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamboinglasgow Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Watched it live last night. Saw the last SpaceX launch when it exploded so was pleasing to see how happy the staff were when the second stage started. But the landing is incredible. It is science fiction stuff but what it means for lowering the cost of space travel is important. I love the fact SpaceX could have just carried on the way it did before but thought it would do something challenging, it has a few failures trying to land it but here it pays off. Interestingly they were not the first to achieve this, Blue Origin did it last month, though they were doing it with a smaller rocket and did not reach space. The next interesting development will be next year in February when a SpaceX rocket will take its next supply capsule to the ISS, on it is an inflatable module that will be attached the ISS, inflated and tested for 2 years. If it proves successful then it allows to build space stations cheaper as modules are compressed when coming up allowing it to fit on smaller rockets and also its cheaper to build larger modules. The company is called Bigelow Aerospace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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