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Chris Bergin - NSF reposted
Sean Doherty
@SeanKD_Photos
Ever see a launch pad drive by? New tower segment on its way to Starbase.

https://x.com/SeanKD_Photos/status/1791713750560518368

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Morning wood courtesy of Jeff Bezos

LIVE! Blue Origin NS-25 Crew Launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PkumtJ39c

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Would a scrub count as a cock block?

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1 of the 3 parachutes fail to deploy properly.
BO talking head said it's designed to account for that but it looked like a hard landing to me, like really hard.

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Guess they're okay as they're out and talking but that landing did look hard.

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1 of the 3 parachutes fail to deploy properly.
BO talking head said it's designed to account for that but it looked like a hard landing to me, like really hard.

Good enough for Boeing and BO, it seems.

Parachutes seem pretty damn hard.  F9 block 5 has a lower raw anomaly count on landings than the BO capsule or the Boeing capsule, despite flying 100x more than either and having no redundancy.  Starting to appear that propulsive landing may be more reliable than chutes.