Space Exploration

Are NASA's future missions and budget justified?

  • It's worth the time and expenditures

    Votes: 225 65.8%

  • Complete waste of money

    Votes: 42 12.3%

  • We need to explore, but not at the current cost

    Votes: 75 21.9%
  • Total voters
    342
#2,926
#2,926
That was quite impressive. It seemed to be a little late firing the engines for a controlled landing, but I'd bet they fix that for the next flight. If you don't break something, you don't learn anything.
 
#2,931
#2,931
Matt2496 said:
They are smaller, but they have about as much thrust as an RS-25 Shuttle engine.
Click to expand...

That is for a glide vehicle, not vertical landing. I am not disputing the math, just lack of one in three engine anomaly failure redundancy
I am speaking out of my ass. This was just a test
 
#2,940
#2,940
From Labpadre’s Sapphire Cam. Shows how late it flips to land. Unfortunately the cam operator attempted to zoom and lost SN8 before it landed so it didn’t capture the RUD itself.
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#2,941
#2,941
Looks like a fire or two has started near landing pad; hopefully they will burn out without spreading.
Not sure they will be able to send in anyone to extinguish them.
 
#2,949
#2,949
#2,950
#2,950
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