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It says something about what they have done for rocketry when crashes on landing are note worthy. No one else even tries what they do normally without issue.

justinclift 6y ago
> It says something about what they have done for rocketry when crashes on landing are note worthy. Err...??? Crashes of rockets always seem to be noteworthy. That's not anything specific to SpaceX.
- ansible 6y ago
  Shivetya is talking about landing rockets afterwards. If they keep up the launch cadence next year, they will surpass the Shuttle in number of reuses in a space program.
  - valuearb 6y ago
    Who is Shivetya?
    - macintux 6y ago
      Can’t find it via DDG or Google.
    - sneak 6y ago
      The person who posted the grandparent comment (beginning "It says something...") to the person (ansible) who mentioned their name, and also the poster of the the great-great grandparent to this comment.
- mNovak 6y ago
  I think they're saying we've come to expect SpaceX rockets to successfully land, so much so that one not doing so is noteworthy. Something nigh unfathomable 10yrs ago
  - justinclift 6y ago
    Ahhh, thanks. That makes more sense to me. :)
- dredmorbius 6y ago
  Very few rocket launches end with any kind of soft landing, let alone main boosters. Soft-landing a small payload, or in the case of the shuttle, a winged reentry vehicle, is the exception. (And yes, the Shuttle also soft-ish watered its SRBs underr chutes.) Retrorocket-soft-landing intact boosters from production launches fully upright was science fiction until four years ago. https://geekologie.com/2016/04/unreal-video-of-spacexs-first-successful.php https://geekologie.com/2016/04/unreal-video-of-spacexs-first... The test platform was first hopped in 2012, only 8 years ago. https://youtube.com/watch?v=pzXlUw2WhcE https://youtube.com/watch?v=pzXlUw2WhcE (I'm not a Musk fanboi,I thought the powered landing was nuts, he proved me wrong.)

justinclift 6y ago

> It says something about what they have done for rocketry when crashes on landing are note worthy. Err...??? Crashes of rockets always seem to be noteworthy. That's not anything specific to SpaceX.

ansible 6y ago
Shivetya is talking about landing rockets afterwards. If they keep up the launch cadence next year, they will surpass the Shuttle in number of reuses in a space program.
- valuearb 6y ago
  Who is Shivetya?
  - macintux 6y ago
    Can’t find it via DDG or Google.
  - sneak 6y ago
    The person who posted the grandparent comment (beginning "It says something...") to the person (ansible) who mentioned their name, and also the poster of the the great-great grandparent to this comment.
mNovak 6y ago
I think they're saying we've come to expect SpaceX rockets to successfully land, so much so that one not doing so is noteworthy. Something nigh unfathomable 10yrs ago
- justinclift 6y ago
  Ahhh, thanks. That makes more sense to me. :)
dredmorbius 6y ago
Very few rocket launches end with any kind of soft landing, let alone main boosters. Soft-landing a small payload, or in the case of the shuttle, a winged reentry vehicle, is the exception. (And yes, the Shuttle also soft-ish watered its SRBs underr chutes.) Retrorocket-soft-landing intact boosters from production launches fully upright was science fiction until four years ago. https://geekologie.com/2016/04/unreal-video-of-spacexs-first-successful.php https://geekologie.com/2016/04/unreal-video-of-spacexs-first... The test platform was first hopped in 2012, only 8 years ago. https://youtube.com/watch?v=pzXlUw2WhcE https://youtube.com/watch?v=pzXlUw2WhcE (I'm not a Musk fanboi,I thought the powered landing was nuts, he proved me wrong.)