[njslim]

Falcon 9 failed booster recovery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAOcdDrV2cg

Hydraulic pump failure caused grid fins to not fully deploy

As per protocol dumped it in drink rather than risk crash on land

Booster landed intact and may be salvageable

[alexander_busek]

As per protocol dumped it in drink rather than risk crash on land [...]

Very little chance of the rocket crashing on land, seeing as how it was launched from Kodiak Island:

[...] authorized the company to perform a suborbital flight of its "Rocket 2" vehicle from Launch Pad 2 at Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska, the commercial launch site on Kodiak Island, Alaska, [...]

Regards,