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rickmcfc said:
What is the purpose of this? Why does he keep sending rockets up, then trying to land them back on earth which then always seem to blow up?
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R+D, its testing and learning till they get it right. At no point have they expected a success yet, these are all classed as Pathfinders.

Took a fair few attempts to get the Falcon 9 landing reliably and this one is a LOT more complex than that. A Falcon 9 costs about $50 million to build, and about£10-15m to referb after each launch. so reuse saves a load of cash in the long run.

1 of the Falcon 9 has been reused 8 times so far saving over about $250m million in doing so, also saving time. 1 falcon 9 flew twice in a month a few months ago.


For comparison. each space shuttle launch cost about $1.7bn
 
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Feels like Science is moving so much faster than before. That exponential curve is really moving. Was watching a film a couple of days ago from 1998 which, to me feels like yesterday but the technology in it seemed ancient.

I'm 45 and from my first memories to about 10 years ago the changes were no where near as impactful on daily life as the last 10 years have been imo.
 
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