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Amazon's Blue Origin Rocket

Amazing achievement "reusable" Rocket" in the news today :

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i watched this on live leak earlier on, its amazing how it stays upright [apart for a little wobbling] on its decent... ... - .- -.




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Compared to some of the other re-usable rocket projects, its stabilising ability seemed much better at correcting lean at larger angles, which helped it do the final touchdown. Very impressive. V8 or else ...
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If you dig around on the web, it would appear that there is rather a lot of CGI going on...... and while they have launched the rocket with pod, it was empty, and from what I can make out, both were brought back down with the aid of parachutes. Impressive if they can pull it off for real Thumbs Up Yesterday I couldn't spell Engineer... Today I are one!
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