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Don’t forget that SpaceX Grasshopper flew DC-X like tests in 2012. Not first by any means, but first for SpaceX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_prototy
by valuearb 6y ago
Don’t forget that SpaceX Grasshopper flew DC-X like tests in 2012. Not first by any means, but first for SpaceX.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_prototypes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_prototypes
- FlyMoreRockets 6y agoValid point. Also, if one wants to stretch the envelope, Harold Graham, flying the Bell Rocket Belt, performed the first rocket powered landing, April 20th, 1961 at Bell Aerospace, upstate New York. This development footage opens with that flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxmxbMdToR4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxmxbMdToR4