just watched it... launch his tesla roadster for a trip round Mars (as a test payload) , for the boosters to return and land upright on a launch pad and the core to land on a drone ship out at sea (though the last bit still needs to be confirmed)

great leap in technology for launching things to space

most powerful rocket since the saturn 5 project too, i believe Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42969020

Extremely impressive, especially the two boosters coming in to land near the end of the video clip. FL2 XS SD4 Auto 2010 2012-2017 (21k - 91k miles) (MY2011)
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The 2 rockets landing at the end of the video looked fake. Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

car get a speeding ticket?? (i'll get my coat)

seriously though that to me is as big a leap as the first space flights. If it wasn't so bad it'd be funny.

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If they really managed to get the two boosters down close together that is some acheivement. I would not be surprised if the Military use the software.

I was unsure myself about how real it seemed to land the two boosters so much in sync, although sites are showing the same footage and reporting it as the actual landing.
https://www.inverse.com/article/40999-spac...g-boosters

Personally, I have been waiting for the world to catch up with 'Dan Dare' of the Eagle comic since the 1950s.
He always returned to Earth tail-first after his trips to Mars and Venus, it looked easy and obvious to me then, although the stories were set in the (then) distant future of 1999.

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I now await gas-turbine cars that hover.

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Not quite all went according to plan...

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The third booster was due to settle on a drone ship stationed several hundred kilometres out at sea. Unfortunately, it had insufficient propellant left to slow the descent, missed the target vessel and was destroyed as it hit the water at some 500km/h.

I’ve watched it a few times now , the landing is fake (iPad) . 1si point is they land just about in sync, 2nd point is , there’s bushes in the near ground that don’t move . Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

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can't believe people think just because they haven't seen anything like it before the boosters landing back are fake, I bet you lot think the earths flat too and there are wombles under Wimbledon Common too

The bushes could be out of the blast radius, zoom lens footage or anything, but oh no its fake, don't believe it, never happened, that should have moved, camera tripod didn't get knocked over, fake, totally fake!! Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

64 tonne payload, thats a lot of caravans.

Or the caravans could be used as a soft landing area At work
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Ive just seen the pictures on BBC and Daily Fail online of the space suited dummy sat in the Tesla with its arm resting on the door and DONT PANIC on the centre console screen, with Earth/Space in the background.... im still laughing

did you see the mini hotrod tesla roadster, complete with mini spaceman sat on its dashboard, hard to make out, but its there



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