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Adding video to channels (Fire, Water) - requested by ant.

reminds me of lunar lander on the atari..

So darn close. That little RCS on the left wide got so painfully close to keeping it upright. I head a rumor that that the valve stuck a bit---the 4rth time, with that straightened out, may be the charm.

SpaceX Falcon Landing - Barge PoV has been added as a related post - related requested by eric3579 on that post.

Me too. That rocket came in way too hot.

One of my fondest memories of childhood was finding an arcade unit that was set to free games...

We'd set it on high difficulty, where you could spin the lander over on it's head, and have competitions seeing how fast you could get it going before impact.

I wonder if it would be possible to make it so that if it failed like this, which is actually quite a close, gentle fail (take a look at the Barge PoV to see how close it actually was,) that it wouldn't actually completely explode...

I suppose there must be reasons that the whole thing just blows up but... why not build it so they could recover it if it's basically standing upright and falls over sideways like this?

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SpaceX has released footage of the April 14 landing attempt from the CRS-6 First Stage Tracking Cam:



Footage from a tracking camera that followed the first-stage of the Falcon 9 during a landing attempt. The footage starts at about 10 km in altitude. Falcon 9 first stage approached the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions” in the Atlantic Ocean after successfully launching the Dragon spacecraft during the CRS-6 mission to the International Space Station on April 14. More info:

http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/06/24/why-and-how-landing-rockets

Post-launch analysis has confirmed the throttle valve as the sole cause of this hard landing. The team has made changes to help prevent, and be able to rapidly recover from, similar issues for the next attempt, which will be on our next launch—the eighth Falcon 9 and Dragon cargo mission to the space station, currently scheduled for this Sunday.