Ambitious, but it feels like science fiction right now. The principles seem reasonable, but we have no reason to believe that SpaceX is capable of pulling this off in the foreseeable future. We'll see if Musk can…
I don't think seeing them as soulless capsules is a very productive attitude. It's true that Dream Chaser's lifting body design looks sexy, but I don't think the goal of human spaceflight is to be sexy. From a tech…
This is not confirmed by SpaceX, but has been floating around the internet as the suspected reason. Last year, SpaceX attempted a first stage water landing, but was not successful. Their two most recent successes on…
I speculate that this one iced up because the vehicle flew a much higher trajectory than the previous vehicle, as visually noticed from the launch webcast. This meant that the first stage spent more time higher in the…
Ambitious, but it feels like science fiction right now. The principles seem reasonable, but we have no reason to believe that SpaceX is capable of pulling this off in the foreseeable future. We'll see if Musk can…
I don't think seeing them as soulless capsules is a very productive attitude. It's true that Dream Chaser's lifting body design looks sexy, but I don't think the goal of human spaceflight is to be sexy. From a tech…
This is not confirmed by SpaceX, but has been floating around the internet as the suspected reason. Last year, SpaceX attempted a first stage water landing, but was not successful. Their two most recent successes on…
I speculate that this one iced up because the vehicle flew a much higher trajectory than the previous vehicle, as visually noticed from the launch webcast. This meant that the first stage spent more time higher in the…