Cool stuff. Descent attitude unstable: they were lucky. Also, too short legs
IMHO.
DC-XA made it only to 10300 ft (3100 m) according to Wiki.
jd
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Subject: [AR] Re: Blue Origin
It's not clear from the story that the booster went all the way to space,
just the capsule.
On 2015-11-24 07:42, David Chandler wrote:
I'm surprised nobody on this list has yet mentioned yesterday's
historic flight by Blue Origin's New Shepard.
https://www.blueorigin.com/
I believe this is the first-ever successful vertical landing of a
spacecraft after a trip to space, is that not right? DC-X made some
vertical landings, but I don't think it ever flew to 100 km, did it?
Space-X will probably do it on their next flight or so, but it seems
that this is one for the history books.
