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Grashopper - Vertical Takeoff Vertical landing (VTVL)
SpaceX's latest test flight with the Grasshopper. Flies 820 feet, tripling its March 7th leap.
Posted 11 years ago by boyt in category: space
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Absaon - 11 years ago [ Reply ]
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Cortex command!

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apu (guest) - 11 years ago [ Reply ]
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and what about moon landing?? how they did it whitout this tech? :D

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Guest (guest) - 11 years ago [ Reply ]
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The moon landings used disposable rockets to boost into space, but with this technology you'll be able to reuse the rockets. If I remember right, then only the shuttle (top of the rocket) was previously retrieved, as the rockets dispersed to drift away, once in space. This new technology will make it so that the rockets won't have to detach and, thereby, so that the complete space missions equipment (rockets and shuttles) will be reused, saving billions. This is probably a step in the direction of commercial moon landings, just a little further than http://www.oplevelsesgaver.dk/adrenalin/en-tur-i-rummet.html which is a trip into space, for around 100,000 USD :P

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