SpaceX have landed a rocket that put up a communication satellite into orbit at 22,000 miles high - about 100 times higher than the International Space Station.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/06/spacex_does_it_again/
Well played, Mr. Musk.
OK, that's impressive desu senpai.
>>73299131
You're forgetting the part where SoaceX is 10x cheaper than anything the government offers.
And they were predicting this landing to not work beforehand. They had no faith in the conditions for this one because they were gonna be so brutal.
And yet they pulled it off. I'd say that's based as hell. Musk deserves all the glory he's getting. Regardless if he's a tool in RL or not.
>>73299131
Typuical. Government wasting endless tax payer dollars to go stand on a rock, while the free market launches communications satellites.
>>73299131
Both are cool?
>>73299248
And don't forget a big part of the reason it is so much cheaper is BECAUSE it is reusable.
Musk is still aiming for Mars. All of this is progress so he can have a reliable system to send people.
I'm fucking excited for the next decade. I want to see a human colony, however small, on Mars.
>>73299033
Oh - and the rocket landed again. That's the impressive part, lel.
>>73299033
>british
>w4nk
>>73299033
Maybe soon we won't rely on Russia
>>73299248
>launching things into space is cheaper than it was 50 years ago
Well I'll be...
>>73299033
>Still believing in space
>>73299033
ok, now we cand send no whites to the space #allniggersareugly
>>73299033
>Well played, Mr. Musk
Reddit please leave
>>73299033
muh capitalism, if you had real capitalism nk would buy this buy this with their sheckles
>>73300256
Elon fucking loves the shit out of capitalism and says the usa is the greatest nation to have ever existed
>>73299383
It's not reusable yet. They have yet to reuse a rocket.
>>73299033
Elon is pretty based t b h
>>73299383
There won't be a human colony in the next 20-30 years. One fucking accident and everyone dies and the public is soured on colonization for decades
Lmao plebs in this thread think that SpaceX is a real company.
>not knowing that space is literally water
https://youtu.be/YmhX1w_Ahoc
>>73300792
>Elon fucking loves the shit out of capitalism
elon loves the crony capitalism
>>73300792
>>73299383
>>73299269
>>73299248
>implying Musk pays all the shit by himself, not with NASAs money
>>73301685
>Russia assmad because we won't need their Soyuz bullshit anymore
