[Mifnet 🛰 74964] Re: The inside story of SpaceX's historic rocket landing that changed launch forever - Ars Technica 20251219

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:34:56 -0800

In inimitable Bob Hoover style, not giving up on it, flying it all the way through the crash.

Unfortunately, that hasn’t always been possible, and nearly brought others to grief.

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/the-spacex-explosion-that-put-flights-in-danger-016a79c0

- Bob Mann


On Dec 20, 2025, at 22:43, David Wardell via Mifnet <[email protected]> wrote:



“On Dec. 21, 2015, SpaceX launched the Orbcomm-2 mission on an upgraded version of its Falcon 9 rocket. That night, just days before Christmas, the company successfully landed the first stage for the first time. The story behind this remarkable achievement is nowhere more fully told than in the book Reentry, authored by Ars Technica Senior Space Editor Eric Berger and published in 2024. To mark the tenth anniversary, Ars is reprinting a slightly condensed chapter from the book that tells the inside story of this landing. The chapter begins in June 2015 with a tragedy, the disintegration of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the CRS-7 cargo supply mission for NASA. It was the first time a Falcon 9 had been lost in flight.”

 

Complete article may be read here.

 

 

David Wardell

(757) 561-0582

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