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2018-12-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

SpaceX muffs a first stage landing into the beach.

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Posted by 3dc 2018-12-05 16:05|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Tired of "space" journalists acting like typing "stick the landing" makes them rocket engineers.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-12-05 19:40|| 2018-12-05 19:40|| Front Page Top

Posted by 3dc 2018-12-05 19:58|| 2018-12-05 19:58|| Front Page Top

#3 (Golf Announcer Voice): "SpaceX has missed the Green and... and... missed the sand trap and... it is in the water hazard. Double Bogie, at least, for this hole!"

Posted by magpie 2018-12-05 21:49|| 2018-12-05 21:49|| Front Page Top

#4 For those of us who don't appreciate the twitter format, what happened? Besides the "we didn't land where we wanted to" bit? Did they run out of hydraulic fluid? (Strange thing to ask, but it actually happened to one of their landing attempts before). Control system failure? If so, gross or subtle?

Wrong coordinate plugged into the landing computer, or did it run out of delta v or fuel to make it back to the landing pad or boat?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-12-05 22:30|| 2018-12-05 22:30|| Front Page Top

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