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> When I was young, there were no rocket landings. For all born after July 1969, you lived with rocket landings: Apollo lunar lander was a propulsive soft land
by adolph 2y ago
> When I was young, there were no rocket landings.
For all born after July 1969, you lived with rocket landings: Apollo lunar lander was a propulsive soft landing.
- pixl97 2y agoI mean the old rocket landings threw away 90%+ of the rocket first. Minus the hot staging ring and some molten metal almost all of this rocket was present at both its landings.
- cubefox 2y agoI wonder how much earlier a rocket like Falcon 9 (with automatic landing of the lower stage) could realistically have been developed and built. In the 70s? 80s? 90s?
- adolph 2y agoI think even into the 90s it would be difficult from a compute and sensor perspective.
- czl 2y agoRocket landing on the moon does not count? Luna 9 in 1966 was the first spacecraft to achieve a controlled soft landing on the Moon.
- fooker 2y ago70s no. 80s maybe, depends on clever use of computing. 90s yes.
- adolph 2y agoThe flying bedstead of 1964 was a reusable rocket that propulsively la ded and was reused. It didn’t go very high tho. . . https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/flying-bedstead/ https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/flying-bedstead/
- sc0ttyd 2y agoNo it wasn't. It was powered by a jet engine. Specifically, a GE CF700. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle