“failed Falcon 9 landing”
Look people, especially so called “journalists”. THIS WAS A TEST! Not an operation mission.
A TEST!
It was NOT a failure. A TEST failure is one in which ZERO useful information is collected so that the engineers can refine their design!
THAT’S WHY IT’S CALLED A TEST!!!!!!
A test that does not collect useful information is called a “No Test” and IS THE ONLY VALID TEST FAILURE!
Get it!
Stop being stupid, you bore those of us who know better and are tired of your caterwauling.
LOL!
Still, a good first effort. The team got it to the landing platform and through a landing sequence. Instrumentation records will make the next attempt more likely to succeed.
I LOVE this guy...failing and then posting pics of the fail. Obama would have blamed Bush.
Sounds like too much fuel expended aiming leaving too little fuel for landing.
darn google barge was off mark just a bit
Perfect!
Oh, sure. They'll be able to buff that out.
I once smashed the side of our garage with the Dodge Dart, but I was learning to drive, so it was a successful test.
Here's hoping he continues to inspire a new generation with what can go RIGHT, not what's WRONG.
Here's a C-17 disgorging loads. ALL of the airborne troops have a front row seat. The importance of the rigger work functioning without error, is imparted on everyone as their lives and the aircrew lives depend on the load exiting the aircraft properly. Additionally, troops on the ground await the loads and expect to find them fully intact, ready for battle use. Rigger trainees undergo the front row seat tradition at rigger school and it's a powerful lesson you never forget. AIRBORNE!
https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrTcdsGL7lURRIAra8lnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBsOXB2YTRjBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkAw--?p=heavy+drop+parachute+protocol&tnr=21&vid=A233BA4941697C7E61DDA233BA4941697C7E61DD&l=31&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DUN.608032344365993174%26pid%3D15.1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DzSUmn7PMPM0&sigr=11b7a357k&tt=b&tit=Heavy+Heavy+Drop!&sigt=10hfi3cco&back=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fyhs%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dheavy%2Bdrop%2Bparachute%2Bprotocol%26ei%3DUTF-8%26hsimp%3Dyhs-001%26hspart%3Dmozilla&sigb=139jbg8je&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
I’m going to say that’s pretty darn good, from the pics it looks almost pinpoint on the x.
By the way if there are any Freepers here who like losing money in 4-7 year period, this might be your guy.
Anybody with access to billions and billions of US taxpayer money can be successful running a business designed from the outset to fail.
All you need is a dream, and an ironclad promise that 1 in ever 2 dollars you end up getting in investments, grants, and loans end up going to support democrat donors.
Solyndra could work. Really.
I love the tweet caption for the last picture. Musk called it an “RUD” for “rapid unscheduled dis-assembly”. LOL...no kidding!
Cool. Engineers learn from analyzing failure, then applying lessons learned.
The only true failure here would have been to not make the attempt at all.
Looking forward to the next Space X landing attempt at the end of the month.
I’ve been waiting to see footage of this. Thanks for posting it.
For a first time they came damn close.