Falcon 9 water landing, 5 December 2018

Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage suffered a landing anomaly, failing to land on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Instead, the Falcon 9 first stage made a water landing in the Atlantic Ocean. The Falcon 9 rocket launched the CRS-16 Dragon spacecraft from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 5 December 2018, at 18:16 UTC (13:16 EST).
Credit: Elon Musk/SpaceX
#CRS16

[@SciNewsRo]

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[@عبداللهالعوفي-ب2ث]

There was maybe 3 seconds delay on first engine firing to reduce 1stage landing speed

[@legendrams548]

Learn it from the Indians yo, they would guide you better😂😂

[@yarass83]

🤣😂🤣😂😋😂🤣😂

[@ronaldrobertson2332]

Oooops!!!

[@nicewhenearnedrudemostlyel489]

why did you put the clips in chronological order? it falls before it splashes. thanks anyway i guess.

[@FrikInCasualMode]

Amazing! Even with malfunction, the stage still managed to land in a controlled manner - softly enough it survived in one piece. It might even be salvageable! SpaceX's engineering is top notch.

[@igorbardales1771]

That abrupt change of temperature distort any metal.

[@nikiw1856]

I thought it was about reusable and lowering the cost of landing.

[@marcbecker9554]

but four times it worked extremely well

[@marcbecker9554]

James Sempy if you like i agree 😉

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Frik Na luzie It truly would be amazing if it could fly again. Would comprehensively show the reusability of SpaceX’s rockets.

[@RippanYT]

The failure happened in the best way. 1. The mission was a success. 2. They knew about the issue right away (the pump) 3. They recovered the booster and the faulty pump 4. Nobody got hurt, everything in their failsafe routines worked as they should. Even when SpaceX fails... its a success!

[@EntropyConcept]

its a valve bro.

[@elbagrau]

A fail is a way to learn how not to do things. Basic engineering principal.

[@garyalcina]

Tru

[@garyalcina]

But that's what it's potpst to do

[@davidhenderson3400]

That is just amazing. Even crippled the way it was the navcom was still able to do a controlled landing. If it had a boat motor I bet it would have driven itself back to shore. That was top notch flying.

[@forrestaustin7050]

That will be added next haha

[@marty3469]

@@forrestaustin7050 if they do, all for royalties for suggesting the idea lol

[@tomthx5804]

If Elon Musk would concentrated on putting a good evinrude mother on the thing instead of launching his used cars into space, maybe he could get something done!

[@nzsaltflatsracer8054]

Elon...note to self....talk to Mercury.

[@dominicbravo9360]

Stowp

[@dhurtt22]

All the fish were like WTF?!

[@memogrr18]

mars attack!

[@railfan8895]

Looks to me like all the fish got fried.

[@PatrickBRHu3]

Lol. Fishes think, first use dynamites to hunt us, now fuckings rockets? Lol

[@swatteam2143]

LOL hard

[@ThejaswiS]

dhurtt22 hahahahaha

[@salameez]

"I'll try spinning, that's a good trick!"

[@akorn9943]

Thank you for this footage, I’m glad they decided to release it.

[@jimd4609]

I know, when they cut the feed, i felt like we would never see any of it. But this is the one time i liked being wrong.

[@евграфломов]

@@jimd4609 they wouldn't have showed us if it had exploded or sth

[@thomaswijgerse723]

@@евграфломов they even made a compilation of all their exploded landings

[@евграфломов]

@@thomaswijgerse723 to show an evolving process (promo of course).

[@thomaswijgerse723]

@@евграфломов youre shifting the goalpost

[@LovelyLifeVines]

Atleast not hiding their small failures also. Hats off Spacex. Elon Musk Rocks 🤘

[@Urov.]

well they did cut the live feed

[@mark2220]

Yea that pissed me off. Own it guys, you obviously released the footage anyway.

[@tomppa246]

@@Urov. there is reason why they do so... If there happens that they actually kill someone with that rocket, wouldnt be good if couple million people see it from youtube live...

[@syyndev2161]

They cut it on the feed, and begun go focusing on the "real" mission.

[@maximobistoyong3600]

The rocket has a computer chips, so the calculation is failed, but it landed just like how it supposed to landing on land

[@BigWater59]

Live up to your mistakes and improve. I like this company and its lack of BS.

[@Voltaic]

Elon stated that they may use the Booster for Intern Missions again. And even if not.. alone the grid fins are worth alot! So its probably still 80% of cost savings of a successful upright landing! Go SpaceX! You do have our Support for the amazing work you are doing!

[@Galactis1]

Bullshit, grid fins aren't worth millions. It's a few pieces of titanium welded together with a rotating conector on the end. Maybe a few thousand.

[@MikkelLarsen97]

@@Galactis1 They cost btw 50-100k. They are not "a few pieces welded together". They are all made from a single piece of titanium and the process of cutting them is extremely complex

[@cogoid]

@@MikkelLarsen97 The grid fins are cast. (Casting titanium is a specialized process that is offered by only a few foundries, especially for such large items.) We can only guess how much they cost, but Elon Musk did mention in relation to the Falcon Heavy incident something along the lines "at least the central core did not have the titanium grid fins -- those things cost a fortune." I doubt that he would fret over a few hundreds of kilobucks. (The engines cost more than that each.)

[@Voltaic]

@@MikkelLarsen97 I think even more taking in account the machinery and work hours! Such amazing pieces of technology! :D

[@MikkelLarsen97]

@@cogoid You are correct, they are cast. But the point is still the same, I remember reading a paper about how complex the manufacturing process is compared to their aluminium counterparts. People saying that they are cheap and simple are just straight up wrong.

[@guscanelo]

Thank you SciNews, as always the best source for videos / footages of rocket launch and spaceflight!

[@Ryusennin]

"I will not dive without a fight."

[@Gr33kChief]

epic save

[@bustinga]

This is just a small step for a brighter future in the space exploration and Rocket programs. Hats off.

[@bern1268]

Holy shit the control systems engineers deserve a massive pat on the back here....

[@marshalcraft]

yeah saved elon musk from having to explain a booster stage landing on someone's house.

[@matthewsanetra]

@@marshalcraft They aim for the ocean and only align themselves to land at the landing pad once they are happy to do so, just in case this happens. Not only that, but Elon also stated that if something were to happen above land, computers know where buildings are in order to avoid them. The engineers there are amazing, seriously good job guys.

[@burhansafe]

@Richard Ensey The control system engineers did their jobs well, it's the grid fin hydraulics that failed and still they made sure it went gently into the water, so yeah the navigation/controls team do deserve some credit.

[@oodoodoopoopoo]

@Richard Ensey - Where's YOUR multi-million dollar rocket?

[@oodoodoopoopoo]

@Richard Ensey - so that's YOUR multi-million dollar rocket then?

[@snakedike]

Every time we experience a failure we learn something new to make it better. Go SpaceX

[@locouk]

Even with such a major malfunction, it can hardly be classed as a failure.. It’s still serviceable! These things are out of this world.

[@wrndlabs]

Lol, no pun intended ;-)

[@AussieAngeltv]

Literally 🌏 🚀

[@Jimswholiestofcoleus]

There is No Failure here.... Only the success of learning from what happened. ELON MUSK THE PIONEER OF OUR GENERATION!!!

[@forrestaustin7050]

It's still failed to land where it should have. Failure is good no reason not to call it what it is.

[@yagitka]

Damn true.

[@collinlee8281]

Jim's Wholiest of Coleus and Jeff Bezos

[@koraxy7490]

Americký shit))))))

[@MikeBrown-si8hv]

Reminds me of when Jim Lovell described Apollo 13 as a "successful failure".

[@cogoid]

Kudos to whomever designed the control system for this rocket! That was very impressive that it was still able to function despite grid fins stuck in a really unfortunate state.

[@obsoleteprofessor2034]

An engineer was listening to the Beatles songs being played backwards and got an epiphany.

[@CheersWarren]

Even though it was a technician failure the booster was doing an almost perfect landing , unfortunately it was on water for safety sake. Stunning , incredible engineering. Cheers Warren

[@anthonyciccariello8089]

Like they always say , any Landing you can walk away from is a good one

[@ashscott6068]

If I break both my arms and lose all my teeth in a landing, I'm calling it a bad one, no matter how much worse it could have been. Finding something worse, does not turn bad into good.

[@Mooshimoca]

@@ashscott6068 at least youre alive bro and thats what matters

[@EntropyConcept]

So... tell me, how many stowaways were on that booster... and how could they have walked away from a SEA LANDING?

[@SaxonTerror]

Still an amazing job !!! Space x you inspire us all !!

[@glmarketingdude]

A great proof of conclusive engineering and aerodynamics. In failure the Falcon still returned and went from space acceleration in flight, to settling into the water at around 5 mph. This is not by chance, but by the best engineering talent we can muster. May every success come to this “Free Enterprise” space program.

[@Urov.]

@Dirk Klapwijk calm down 'dirk'

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I just realised the landing legs actually stabilised most of the spin just before landing. Like an ice dancer extending her arms and pulling them back in makes her spin less and more.

[@koitao25]

At least it didn't explode. That's a win in my book

[@silversurfer2756]

This was perfect landing and possibilities that this can be used for are so endless This means we now can drop out of space and into the sea. A+++

[@thisnicklldo]

It'll be fine on Mars: 1. No water 2. Matt Damon will think of something

[@Badafuco805-AK]

Still freaking incredible. And great footage! Go SpaceX! I love this stuff!

[@Pintuuuxo]

Thank you SciNews for showing what SpaceX was too afraid to show it live. Even when something goes wrong SpaceX keeps on scoring. Great show. This B5 just needs to be checked and it'll fly again I'm sure.

[@TractorsChemer]

Ground, air, space, air, water. :-)

[@mrguitar5051]

Videos like this, prove Lockheed Martin can't get something simple done cheaply and that it actually works at the same time.

[@emonvidaly]

Epic video! Thank you!

[@thomaspayne6866]

Kingdom of Hush - the most gentle crash I’ve ever seen

[@mileskilometers4302]

Thank you Elon, very cool!

[@FutureAIDev2015]

How did the upper half of the stage survive the impact into the water? Falling from that height must be like hitting concrete.

[@gray011170]

Water landings are a normal landing procedure for SpaceX where the orbit insertion requires flight so far out that they can even reach their drone ship. Simply just proved the ability to control a soft landing into water with the end result being a reusable booster. Kudos to SpaceX. Shows how robust the systems are.

[@klnsbl]

gray011170 nah, this one was supposed to land on a drone ship but the grid fins got stuck so ship landing was aborted and it touched down in the sea instead.

[@gray011170]

Kilian Seibl no. They said at launch it was to return to LZ1 which is at KSC on land.

[@danielb516]

Even though it wasnt perfect it's still insanely amazing they can do this ...

[@cliffp.8396]

Dizzier than a drunk on a roller coaster and still landed softly and vertical in the ocean. Me remembering why every other space agency Ever tossed that rocket stage in the garbage after one use, because landing it "can't be done" smh. Good work you guys, bravo.

[@RonSonntag]

This is an awesome video! Kudos to SpaceX for showing the truth. There is no embarrassment in failure. There is embarrassment in failure to recognize it and learn from it.

[@ericpowell7547]

Even Elons failures are impressive, she landed, against all odds, BRAVO ELON!!!

[@enriqueayala8252]

While Musk's efforts can be lauded, credit must be due to the engineers. My respects to them as such a fellow.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Definitely some brilliant engineers and software programmers.

[@ericpowell7547]

@@enriqueayala8252 I recall an interview were he said, in the beginning, he had to do the physics, because he couldn't afford engineers, but, YES, BRAVO TO HIS TEAM! They built one hell of a ship, I nearly cried when she started to wobble and spin, knowing instinctively, THAT'S BAD! Even with a major malfunction, she still LANDED! I feel great pride for them, I would love to see his reaction while this was happening, he's such a character, I flash back to the interview for the BFR, " I just hope it doesn't blow up on the launching pad " he said with a smile to a horrified reporter, PRICELESS!!!

[@PistonAvatarGuy]

Man, zealots are scary.

[@ericpowell7547]

@@PistonAvatarGuy what is your passion? Math, science? Engineering? Can you land a rocket? You DON'T care, do you.

[@foreverCaroline2]

Thank you Elon for posting it!

[@rogert151]

They should just have a group of spacex employees ready with a catch blanket like when people jump out of windows in the movies

[@diegoperezreyes8388]

They have, but is designed for catching fairings, rockets would've ripped it apart with their retro-boost

[@fotinid6638]

I really wanted to see the water landing.. thank you👍🎁🎄

[@Thee_Sinner]

What was the puff of fire that seemed to come from above the landing legs?

[@konsul2006]

Buildup of pressure from the engines as they are dunked into the water...? (strange, not from the engine. it looks like it comes from the side of the rocket)

[@A101-t4z]

I think it was releasing all of its propellant as a safety measure to make it safer for the recovery crew to approach the rocket.

[@RocketToTheMoose]

I think they normally depressurize the tanks as soon the rocket touches down. Since the rocket apparently was still going through it's automated post-landing sequence even after tipping over, that may have just been the valve opening up...but obviously it's intended to do that when the rocket is vertical, so some propellant came out and ignited. That's my guess anyway.

[@Dufud6]

i'm wondering if it was a pressure release valve that opened when the engines entered the water and pressure built up

[@cogoid]

@@RocketToTheMoose It was definitely the fuel tank venting. In flight it is pressurized to about 3 bars, which is close to the limit of what the walls of the rocket can withstand. If the rocket topples over while pressurized, it is almost invariably bursts like a popped balloon.

[@naseermir9233]

Amazing.... beautiful moments...I was watching yesterday... Elon Musk

[@rcbif101]

That rapid cooling cant be good for parts...

[@Gr33kChief]

i thought the same thing

[@theflyinggasmask]

well... it's better for the parts than smashing into the ocean an mach 2 :P

[@chromosome24]

Probably experiences more extreme thermal loading from conditions in space and during reentry.

[@bearcb]

Not to mention salt water

[@-_Nuke_-]

better land the damn thing at sea than having it land on people's houses lol

[@unusedName1]

Note how the spin is reduced when the landing legs are deployed. A great demonstration of the conservation of the angular momentum. Elon please, I deserve a job in SpaceX for this comment 😀😀😀

[@jetaddicted]

An integrated emergency flotation device would come in handy in the future.

[@11B30Inf]

Control landing in the water....impressive and it is recoverable too.

[@lokeshs9931]

Every failures will allow to identify root cause of the problem.. Amazing that first stage made a water landing even with malfunction.. SpaceX rocks..

[@shotgun3628]

The live chat was amazing for this

[@mosaicendk]

This reminds me of that scene from Interstellar where he has to rotate in order to dock

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

Except, in that plot-hole of a film, the docking point wasn't on the spin axis, but had a radius from the axis, making the dock maneuver a spiral. Not even Thunderbirds has physics as bad as Interstellar.

[@Kay_213_]

r/iamverysmart

[@Kay_213_]

Which one of you should I post on reddit?

[@Kay_213_]

Not acting smug, just asking a direct and reasonable question Which you apparently aren’t

[@mosaicendk]

In any case, I merely said it reminded me of that scene regardless of context. :D

[@1teamski]

Gotta say that is pretty bad ass to have a rocket compensate like that to such a high degree. That is incredible.

[@TeslaNick2]

Is it just me that felt sorry for it ?

[@Gr33kChief]

its like it has so much character, but its just a rocket. These onboard computers are something else

[@emonvidaly]

It tried so hard.... But in the end... Lol

[@omarmarquez4037]

Bro the test was succesfull

[@wolfbear7]

Good to see you not covering up when things don't go perfectly. Honesty is best so we can believe your successes. May you have many many more successes. Elon Musk, I respect and support you. Thank You

[@dawgsout4free]

Can I get some Falcon 9 grilled lobster pls?

[@shivamvaid601]

Probably the best landing spacex has done after the falcon heavy landings.

[@MrRockydee07]

Is that what they call a Mickey Finn ? .... noticed it did pretty good compensating with the Finn stuck in incorrect position..... 🇺🇸👍.

[@Wayoutthere]

The engine gimbal probably still feels the strain of trying to correct the descent. WELL DONE engineers.

[@tigeroll]

There is a good chance they could have still landed it on the landing pad even with the stuck grid fin. I think they got scared when they saw it spinning like a football and controlled it out over the water. In the mud those 4 legs would just not hold it up.

[@Slicerz717]

Rocket is all automated. If it falls out of its parameters of a nominal descent, it's trajectory takes it into the ocean. They do this because the landing burn is very precise and has little room for error. The only way the first stage will make it to the pad, is if everything is going fine right until the landing burn, which directs it towards the landing pad for a landing.

[@decconnell4028]

During the live feed, they cut away from the stage 1...failure or not,why not keep with the shot?

[@itzrally7]

The only smart people on Earth

[@devosious7085]

Except him ^

[@andrewrixon2347]

The reason it failed was a stalled hydraulic pump that controls the grid fins. Apparently the stage is still transmitting data and it’s going to be recovered once the can work out how to de pressurise it at sea. I’m guessing it’s only internal pressure that’s keeping it afloat.

[@xElMery]

Uhh it hit water, how can you call this a "LANDing"?

[@SciNewsRo]

@xElMery Compare to kzbin.info/www/bejne/eInHZoh-e9qNjKs

[@thomaspayne6866]

It’s a crash. These NPC’s are empty brainwashed vessels

[@htn1254]

@xElMery - What you call the landing on a barge in the ocean ? Barging ?

[@Gr33kChief]

lol

[@Cliff_P]

Oceaning of course.

[@bobcat1384]

I sure hope they recovered it OK, I absolutely love watching private space enterprises, it is truly amazing what these guys have done.

[@kazekagesama92]

Imagine if this happen infront of your yard. I'll be damn..

[@diegoperezreyes8388]

That's why they launch nearby the sea... And it's also why they changed the landing zone to the ocean when they noticed the failure, It would've been dangerous if it landed on the pad

[@chazdude3644]

I would br happy. I would try to hide it though. It would be cool to have an entire 1st stage of a rocket

[@kazekagesama92]

@@chazdude3644 lel, n sold to them as spare part.. Profit!!

[@Gr33kChief]

"its mine now"

[@ronniedubs741]

Why not have a drag parachute at the top to keep it vertical?

[@user-raf]

Спасибо. Сложные технологии, надеюсь найдут решения.

[@highenergy5335]

great pioneer work, Elon.....

[@Cliff_P]

Looks like the 1st stage still had fair control and on error went to sea ditching mode?

[@mistertagnan]

Cliff P grid fin got stuck, too little control to risk LZ-1 landing

[@3gunslingers]

While such a failure would automatically result in "sea ditching mode" I hardly think that the rocket would have had enough control authority left to guide itself to land. It was barely able to contain the rising roll rate.

[@davidhenderson3400]

@@3gunslingers I do not know. This seems to be one smart rocket.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

@@3gunslingers Spin pretty much gone by touchdown.

[@lukaslieb7085]

Without the grid fins the rocket is not able to perform the aerodynamic slide towards LZ1. So they couldn't perform a pad landing, even if they would have tried

[@Janken_Pro]

Can't wait to see this video blow up 5 years later.

[@tomthx5804]

I like how SpaceX acts just like the Soviets and cuts the live feed as soon as something goes wrong. Can't have the truth get out, now can we, comrades?

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

@peter Well if you believe we've got that kind of transparency you're naive, we're not told everything and only through people like Julian Assange etc do we get to see what truths are hidden, and look what happens to people like him. We're no better.

[@whyismynametaken123]

I assumed they cut the feed as soon as they noticed an anomaly in case of catastrophic failure. An explosion, for example at that altitude can be extremely deadly. If you search youtube you'll find an old NASA video that shows one of their rockets exploding shortly after takeoff where flaming chunks of metal the size of VW Beetles were raining down and smashing into the ground.

[@trihorus]

@@whyismynametaken123 send the link I'd like to see.

[@MisterFusion113]

Any other rocket manufacturer would love to have a water landing go that smooth.

[@epiphonium]

This "water landing" looked soft enough for a passenger to survive. Discuss.

[@GymVideos1]

Yes, imagine if it was a BFR ship with passengers jumping to Hong Kong... They would of survived!

[@epiphonium]

@@GymVideos1 I said " a " passenger as in a test flight, they haven't tried one with a single person or even a dog or monkey yet. It looks more survivable than American or Russian crashes.

[@GymVideos1]

There were rats/mice on this mission and they are still on their way to the station... And I was agreeing with you, if it had one passenger or 100 they would of survived.

[@epiphonium]

@@GymVideos1 cool, I am amazed these flights have gone this well and I applaud the efforts and successes may we all learn something about our universe from this.

[@diegoperezreyes8388]

Is way dangerous to jump out of a ship than landing like that tho

[@op3l]

Just wondering but wouldn’t the metal or material warp or crack given the heat of re entry?

[@FadlyMaskom]

better to do an unsuccessful landing on water than on land.. I bet it would be more catastrophic.

[@ichoozjc]

It's programmed to descend over sea. Only after it proves stable does it move inland. Makes it easier to dump it in the ocean rather than programming it to land 1st on the pad and then having to ditch it at sea at the last minute.

[@Gr33kChief]

dangerous to the public too

[@mysock351C]

Its taking a vacation. Nothing like a good swim after a long day.

[@anshulkumar-dy9sj]

I want one of these to accidentally land on my ex girlfriends house

[@nickyl9040]

I watched the launch from about a mile East of the A . Max Brewer Bridge in Titusville . The strangest thing about the launch was that it was almost totally silent for it's entire trip into orbit. My best guess is that a really stiff North wind pushed the sound away from us. I saw the booster do a powered descent and when it got below the VAB I thought that it had done a successful soft landing

[@ЕвгенийСтрельников-я6э]

Хорошо не на жилой район, а то мы уже видели как они бабахают.

[@odyssey9379]

This wasn't a failure, It was just an unscheduled water landing.

[@Diggnuts]

Together with an unscheduled safety protocol test.

[@odyssey9379]

@@Diggnuts Exactly.

[@ТакТочно-ю4м]

Отправьте Маска на стажировку в Роскосмос, ведущую космическую корпорацию планеты, может поднаберётся опыта, а то вся планета уже устала смеяться над его падающими фальконами.

[@WoodooAlien]

Так Точно Аххахахх бля

[@VVV-yi2wj]

Так же они и бывали на Луне, уверен! Что там невероятно, что здесь косяки!

[@ВоваЭдельман]

Ведущая держава, накорми своих шастающих по помойках пенсионеров клоут блять))

[@VVV-yi2wj]

Они везде есть, как вы выразились, " шастающие "!

[@ДенисВикторович-ц2д]

Нафига он нам нужен. Пусть в своей Америке экспериментирует. У нас у Рагозина батут есть, дешево и практично.

[@doggo00]

A failure is a failure only if you learn nothing from it. This was far from a failure, They gained info about a problem that may have expirience in the future and let's not forget how softly they touched down without even the grid fins that was amazing

[@toddbaugh4193]

NASA - You cannot re-use launch rockets, we've been doing it this way for 50 years... SpaceX - Shut up and hold my beer.

[@SciNewsRo]

@Todd Baugh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle

[@indigodragon0613]

Pretty awesome facts: The onboard computer decides to land in the water as a precaution when anomalies are detected. The booster completed it’s post landing shutdown phase which is done to ensure it’s safe to approach, all while on its side and resting in the water.

[@indigodragon0613]

HO LAM YIU Yup but if an anomaly is detected, the computer will decide to skip the last minute course correction and end up landing in the water.

[@souladventurer8911]

Quite clean landing as I see it. Very clean. Not much serious damage it will be ready as knew next time. Amazing!

[@flleeppyy9959]

*Interstellar music plays*

[@MentalParadox]

It's still tripping me out.

[@hurd91]

Why does it sound like the audio is not right?

[@eins.wanderer4799]

very impressive. Just imagine that gimbal on that engine to counteract the spin. Just incredible

[@Atlessa]

at about 0:25 there's a jet of flame quite visible... where did that come from? Did it jettison remaining fuel or something along those lines?

[@DocThirdy]

No rocket was harmed during the filming of this video.

[@barackobama2910]

why it don't use paraсhute&floats?

[@Noruv_4]

The fish under the falcon 9: 👁👄👁

[@mziqbal2003]

Falcon 9 is beautifully going into the water like a river flows surely to the Sea. It's a tranquil landing 🌠

[@redblinddog]

What is amazing is the fact it is likely a near full recovery. Big concern is the corrosive effects of the Sea Water. It may have just demo a secondary recovery mode. We'll see when the engineers get done with their inspection. I hope Space X keeps us space freaks informed about their findings. OK time to move on to Dragon and resupply mission.

[@kevinpole4327]

I love how cool and big this rocket is :p

[@andyabajo]

At he very end of the landing stage the booster almost tips over however the rockets manages it steadily upright, just WOW!

[@Archin-dn4bp]

It can be seen that one of the steering is jammed and the rocket is twisted out of it.

[@obsoleteprofessor2034]

Well how else would you put out a big candle like that?

[@Coolkids0011]

How much was the fine to the dnr for all that rocket fuel that spilled in the sea

[@martinsutoob]

What will the effect be of quenching the extremely hot engines in the sea like that?

[@martinsutoob]

@Shourya Bose I would have thought so too. But then when you switch the engines off in space they will also be exposed to sudden extreme temperature change. Who knows. Maybe they've got that designed in.

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will this booster still be able to fly space mission?