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SpaceX Grasshopper landing gear
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SpaceX makes progress towards Grasshopper hops
Elon Musk posted the following comments and photo tonight at (elonmusk) on Twitter -
/-- "Landing gear of the mega thrust propulsive landing rocket done (next gen Falcon). First hops soon. http://img.ly/i5JQ"
/-- "Making large scale rocket propulsion landing work well is a critical step towards a fully reusable Mars transport system"
/-- "... which is the critical breakthrough needed for life to become multiplanetary."
Here's what a landing Grasshopper should look like:
Posted 05/11/12
SpaceX makes progress towards Grasshopper hops
Elon Musk posted the following comments and photo tonight at (elonmusk) on Twitter -
/-- "Landing gear of the mega thrust propulsive landing rocket done (next gen Falcon). First hops soon. http://img.ly/i5JQ"
/-- "Making large scale rocket propulsion landing work well is a critical step towards a fully reusable Mars transport system"
/-- "... which is the critical breakthrough needed for life to become multiplanetary."
Here's what a landing Grasshopper should look like:
Posted 05/11/12
