> Parachute landing a crew pod into the ocean is something we first did the year my dad was born You're getting confused between the tiny pod that people sit i

> Parachute landing a crew pod into the ocean is something we first did the year my dad was born You're getting confused between the tiny pod that people sit in - which basically does nothing, and the actual rocket, with all the flames and gasses and actually make the pod go somewhere. Nobody has ever landed and reused the rocket before SpaceX > landed an entire orbiter like an airliner three years before I was born Yes, a thing with wings landed using lift from the wings. It did not use rockets for propulsive landing like SpaceX have designed.