Spacex Falcon Rocket Explodes On Landing After Delivering Satellite To Space

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35340734

Funny...Thunderbirds made it seem so easy !

[Booldawg]

at least it got to deliver its payload!

didn't the last one go awry, missed the sea landing platform or something?

[mikey4444]

Apparently so Booldawg :::::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32330383

[EDDIE51]

I have been following this on 'Universe Today' a free service that sends you an email every day with the latest 'space science ' news.
It has had a link to the live TV broadcast showing the launch and attempted recovery of Spacex Falcon .

[jno]

wonky leg - hard to think why that should happen if the other two legs were the same. I suppose ethere must still have been plenty of fuel on board for it to explode.

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps they could design a reusable spaceship that lands like a plane.
They could call it something like the space shuttle.

[EDDIE51]

http://www.universetoday.com/126854/watch-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-almost-stick-droneship-landing-tip-explode-video/
Here I hope is a video of the rocket landing on the drone ship.
The only thing that went wrong was one of the landing legs failed to lock

[EDDIE51]

^^ You need to scroll down to the actual video, but it works.