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Considering all of these stories of how hard parachutes seem to be, it seems surprising that everyone seemed to be against SpaceX's initial plan to do propulsiv
by ufmace 7y ago
Considering all of these stories of how hard parachutes seem to be, it seems surprising that everyone seemed to be against SpaceX's initial plan to do propulsive landings of their capsules. I'd like to see them get that worked out soon, even if only for the cargo capsules at first.
- kibwen 7y agoI don't recall anyone being against the idea of propulsive landings on a technical level. There was no reason to suspect they weren't possible, although I could imagine someone being skeptical of the cost savings that they could practically achieve in exchange for lessened payload capacity.