Amazing Video of Falcon 9 Stage Crashing onto Barge

Maybe that’s the point though. I mean hardly anyone has tried, so most people believe that it should be near impossible. But, what happens if its not actually that hard?

Eg. Grasshopper was successful in every flight. F9R was successful in all its flights except the last, and it doesn’t look like Spacex are going to rebuild it. Also, there was a plan to fly F9R from Spaceport America that doesn’t seem to have happened.

What I mean is, Spacex look to have cancelled some of the flights that they were planning to do, ie. are taking a quicker approach than expected, yet seem to be doing better than expected.

Many people will now expect that they will successfully land the next attempt, which will mean that since the first flight test of Grasshopper was in Sept 2012, and the first landing would be (hopefully) around Feb 2015, that the development programme would have taken two years and five months. The original Grasshopper was expected to fly in tests for three years.