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Old 02-22-2018, 09:08 AM   #1714
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Originally Posted by DaFace View Post
They're trying to catch the fairing at the moment, so that's fun at least.

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000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank">Going to try to catch the giant fairing (nosecone) of Falcon 9 as it falls back from space at about eight times the speed of sound. It has onboard thrusters and a guidance system to bring it through the atmosphere intact, then releases a parafoil and our ship, named Mr. Steven, with basically a giant catcher’s mitt welded on, tries to catch it.

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I seen that and had this thought 'Easy Peezy, what could go wrong'.
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