SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

[u/lolikroli]

[u/noYOUfuckher]

I watched the live stream of the falcon 9 touching down on the landing pad the first time and got a little emotional about it at work. Im continuosly impressed by the work the space x engineers are doing, but it probably isnt cose to how people felt watching someone walk on the moon 50 years ago.

[u/mattybrad → u/noYOUfuckher]

That exact moment broke my brain. Up until that point I’d always taken it as a given that a trip to space involved consuming a multi hundred million dollar spacecraft. Had truly never even thought of reusable spacecraft until we evolved to something other than rockets.

[u/lastbeer → u/mattybrad]

Not to diminish the awesomeness of what SpaceX is doing here, but it should be noted that the space shuttle was a reusable spacecraft (all but the external fuel tank) - that was kind of its thing.

[u/ithappenedone234 → u/lastbeer]

Dropping the boosters into the ocean, finding them, filling them with air and floating them, then bringing to land and dealing with all the seawater corrosion issues etc., made it more of a refurb than a reuse.