SpaceX Grasshopper 250m Test | Ring of Fire

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1. The geeks in the comments section didn't think much of this

but they also seem to have missed out on the concept of "prototype."

I find this test to be pretty impressive, actually, although I have no idea what it's going to be used for. It's cheaper to let fuel tanks burn up or fall into the Atlantic for retrieval than it is to use fuel to return them to the launching pad.

It does recreate the 50s space opera takeoff and landing nicely, though.