Is it me, or does Musk sitting in the front watching the landing with his back to the rest of the company just strike anyone else as a pre-Vatican II mass?
WOW! WHAT A RIDE! Can't wait to see this done with a crew onboard!Will it be a splashdown at sea, or landing on land?
Nobody a SpaceX MC seems to be celebrating something went wrong?
It sounds like they wait for the recovery forces to arrive in the area before detaching the parachutes, perhaps to improve chances of recovering them.
I have a hunch that all future LEO Dragons besides the contracted 12 CRS flights will use propulsive landing. Once they've got it working, it's much cheaper operationally for SpaceX.
now.... when is the next launch
Does anyone else feel like a regular camcorder is capable of superior visual quality than some of these spotter cameras are providing?