SpaceX Falcon 9 FT launch - CRS 8 - SLC-40

[ecarfan]

Wow! Awesome first stage landing on Of Course I Still Love You! I was cheering. Another historic first for SpaceX.

 

[Electroman]

Incredible. The seas were a bit rough and the platform wasn't steady. Still great to see it standing upright

 

[hockeythug]

Epic

 

[nwdiver]

WOW... I don't think Elon could have had a better week... Well done Space X!!!

 

[lklundin]

Well done to all at Space X, the first stage landing looked really good even with the rolling vessel.

I wonder what accuracy they expected on the first stage landing and what they will do to reduce the risk of future misses.

 

[HVM]

 

[doug]

WOW

 

[MikeC]

So cool!

 

[Ubbe]

Pretty good week for Elon, first the spectacular launch of Model 3, and now this one!
Whohoo!

 

[larmor]

WOW! I'm gonna get on amazon prime and see if they can deliver some brooms to the drone ship....

 

[The Blue Owl]

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[WentOffGrid]

Amazing, incredible, awesome, can't think of a word that describes this goal completed.

I don't have the intellect to fathom how truly hard this rocket science is, but to be alive to witness it is great!

Land a used (large) rocket part on a relatively small object that's moving in the ocean? Wow.

 

[ggr]

The good news is, this time they won't have to repair OCISLY!

woohoohooooo.

 

[Norbert]

Smooth landing! Congratulations SpaceX to this historic step in space travel !!!

 

[glhs272]

Huge congratulations to SpaceX on their successful barge landing! And of course congrats on a nominal Dragon launch!

 

[rolosrevenge]

Wow, just wow.

 

[Jhsq]

The incoming angle + the landing + the size of the waves - that was a true feat of engineering.

If this rocket is technically operational, could they just refill and send it to space without any precious cargo to test the reusability?

 

[FluxCap]

BRAVO WOW

 

[miimura]

The incoming angle + the landing + the size of the waves - that was a true feat of engineering.

If this rocket is technically operational, could they just refill and send it to space without any precious cargo to test the reusability?

There is a satellite operator who has already volunteered to be the first to re-use a first stage. I'm assuming they want a significant discount to take on that risk though...

 

[robertvg]

Really incredible and amazing.
I think the Russians and Chinese just have experienced what Mercedes, BMW, Audi and GM have felt on March 31st