I know that I marvel at Elon Musk's genius.....
Former PayPal mogul Elon Musk's SpaceX has reached another major milestone in the private sector's space race.
SpaceX designed a 10-story Falcon 9 rocket — called the Grasshopper — capable of blasting off and then immediately descending back to Earth. The rocket already showed earlier this summer that it can go up hundreds of yards and then come back down — but this week it successfully maneuvered 100 yards to the side, then used special navigation sensors to return safely and precisely back to the launch pad.
Tech writers were duly impressed. "That is rocket science," says Jason Paur at Wired. "The really cool kind of rocket science." Forget Musk's recently unveiled design for a supersonic "Hyperloop" mass transit system on Earth, Paur says, because this is "far cooler.".........
http://news.yahoo.com/watch-amazing-spacex-rocket-blast-off-come-back-110000793.html
Former PayPal mogul Elon Musk's SpaceX has reached another major milestone in the private sector's space race.
SpaceX designed a 10-story Falcon 9 rocket — called the Grasshopper — capable of blasting off and then immediately descending back to Earth. The rocket already showed earlier this summer that it can go up hundreds of yards and then come back down — but this week it successfully maneuvered 100 yards to the side, then used special navigation sensors to return safely and precisely back to the launch pad.
Tech writers were duly impressed. "That is rocket science," says Jason Paur at Wired. "The really cool kind of rocket science." Forget Musk's recently unveiled design for a supersonic "Hyperloop" mass transit system on Earth, Paur says, because this is "far cooler.".........
http://news.yahoo.com/watch-amazing-spacex-rocket-blast-off-come-back-110000793.html