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		andygates on April 15, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX Dragon CRS-6 Launch Webcast Very easy to armchair -- but it's a fifteen story beer can, so you need a huge arrestor system, and it's pretty fragile except up its axis. The ultimate goal is to land on a flat pad, so adding stuff now moves away from that goal.

ChuckMcM on April 15, 2015 [–]

I love the beer can analogy. Agreed it is a really interesting problem. Which I don't doubt SpaceX will solve. I was not impressed with the ULA "lets just catch the engines with a helicopter" idea.

Can't wait to see the recovered barge video.

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