<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Definitely impressive. I only wish the youtube video had explained all the flames coming out the side of the rocket.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">And can you imagine the heat blast that the pad below the rocket has to endure? What happens if the booster gets a bit off-kilter as it's being snagged and the engines point at the base of the tower for a second or so??</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 1:17 PM Jeff Hayas <<a href="mailto:jeff.hayas@gmail.com">jeff.hayas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.<br>
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All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.<br>
You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...<br>
For great justice.<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>The rocket-booster parked itself into a docking-gizmo.! Impressive engineering.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:NPRSans,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0px">SpaceX rocket booster successfully 'caught' on first attempt during flight test</span><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);letter-spacing:0.36px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">"Seven minutes into the flight test and after separating from the Starship’s vehicle, the rocket booster was successfully caught for the first time ever in “Mechazilla,”<i> a mechanism with chopstick-like arms on a tower on the launch pad.</i>"</font></span><br></blockquote><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/13/nx-s1-5151788/spacex-starship-booster-caught-first-launch" target="_blank"><b>The News Article on NPR</b></a></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><a href="https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845442658397049011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1845442658397049011%7Ctwgr%5E4b84a18b94c0ce42752161da95d4d64808abd0e3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2024%2F10%2F13%2Fnx-s1-5151788%2Fspacex-starship-booster-caught-first-launch" target="_blank"><b>Video of Landing/Recovery</b></a> </font> ( on X, of course.)</div></div>
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