It is now confirmed that the next Falcon 9 launch to ISS will have legs on its first stage and will attempt a controlled landing over water.
It is now confirmed that the next Falcon 9 launch to ISS will have legs on its first stage and will attempt a controlled landing over water.
Earlier reports were based on rumors and unofficial reports.
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It is now confirmed that the next Falcon 9 launch to ISS will have legs on its first stage and will attempt a controlled landing over water.
Earlier reports were based on rumors and unofficial reports.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
This is great! Let’s hope that SpaceX gets some good (IR) video of the water landing!
Has anyone got a pic of these legs deployed, while attached to the real rocket?
That ram has got to turn almost 180° from stowed to deployed! Where does it all fit within such a small space?
Does anyone have pics of the legs on the ‘real’ rocket? Not on the grasshopper…
That big ram looks like it’ll need to turn over almost 180° to support the legs. I wonder where it will all go, given such a small space on the outside of the booster’s body.
What the heck? I couldn’t see the post I did yesterday, until I posted again…
The mechanism appears straightforward. It appears that the leg attaches to the body at the ends of the ‘v’, and the piston is attached to the rocket body at the upper end. As the piston extends, I would think that the lower end slides along the leg trough, forcing the leg down, until it reaches the landing pad end and locks in place.
My question is, who are those people behind the leg mock-up? They don’t look like techs or engineers. Does Space-X give factory tours? If so, I know where my next vacation will be.