SpaceX nails double booster landings after launch

SpaceX has scored another set of double booster landings following a launch for the U.S. military. Elon Musk's company launched its Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday for the first time in more than three years from Kennedy Space Center. (Nov. 1)

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[Debukochi]

I worked with the old Atlas F (Atlas SM-65F) ICBM boosters which were conscripted into service for launching military satellites (pre-shuttle, mid-70s). Although this concept was certainly imagined at that time, it was considered Buck Rogers stuff and certainly not seriously pursued. Just amazing stuff.

[Brickwall]

NASA would have required 50 trillion to pull this off. Thats why you can never rely on the gov to make the progress we need

[charlesbrightman]

Whatever Elon may or may not do with a certain new business, credit given where credit due. It's pretty awesome to see rockets land themselves.

[erichter]

I liked that the video included sound of the rocket angines.

[andrewwehunt]

How do I watch these land in person as close as possible?

[kofiyara]

Why are there sonic booms for exaple at 1:08, what causes them? Does a sonic boom occur also when you get below mach1? Never heard of or is it something else?

[Beamshipcaptain]

All the Space movies since the late 1940s showed rockets landing on their tails and being reused. I could never figure out why in the 1960s and 70s when I was growing up, they wasted so much money on throwing rockets away, and leaving things behind!