Someone remind me why we need the government for space exploration again please? Government is incompetent mmmmkklaaaaaaayyy? Nice work SpaceX team.
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Dragon is contracted by the government to resupply a government space vehicle. Jus sayin
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They trust private companies to do the heavy lifting
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because it is good business sense and a good way to develop the technology.
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Don't forget Boeing and lockheed's United Space Alliance is private sector, and they did not exactly advance space tech at a blistering pace
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Yeah Space X is way ahead of the game with their CGI
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Oh of course, the earth being flat and all.
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Kids these days won’t know a world where rockets never landed.... the new normal is awesome & still amazing every time
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Just wait until these rockets are being routinely reused. Such an exciting time!
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Not only the 20th booster landing, but that makes an 80% success rate overall. Nice!

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If you don’t count the learning curve up to the first successful landing what is the success rate? I don’t recall any failure since it.
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It depends what you mean, it sounds like you're saying "they haven't failed since they failed" xD - if you only count failures since their first ground pad success then its 86.36% and only failures since their first droneship success its 94.12%
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but Elon tweeted saying he expected 70% in 2016 and ~90% in 2017 (this was before AMOS-6) so he himself counts every landing attempt that could have been successful, in the overall success rate, which is 80.00%
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Sure is dude! Nothing like a successful mission to brighten the day!
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The landing looks so incredibly gentle, I wonder what the amount of force was at moment of impact?
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I think ground landings are a lot more precise and gentle than drone ship landings bc the pad itself doesn't move all the time - I'm mostly referring here to vertical movement and tilting caused by waves. This is the result of innumerable hours of work done by the
@SpaceX team.
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Core 35 is the first to have flown two (gentle) LEO missions, may we see a third flight for core 35? ;)
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It just doesn’t get old.
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