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Comment by redox99 | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]redox99 · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:36 UTC · link
You don't understand the precision required to catch a 70m tall behemoth when you have Earths atmosphere. It's not even close to bringing a capsule to an approximate area, a small ship somewhere with almost no atmosphere, or even landing a rocket on a pad (which we've only had since Falcon 9)
[−]origini · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:48 UTC · link
But others are also working on it and showed they can do it too?
[−]motionlessveloc · 2026-11-14 Sat 23:06 UTC · link
Today was literally the first time humanity flew a rocket to orbit and landed it vertically.
[−]emkoemko · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:51 UTC · link
brother... we launched and autonomously put a car on mars using a sky crane, now that is damn amazing