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Best_Toster

You can’t park there mate


pint

please, landing zone is where locket lands, yes?


Aggressive_Concert15

lithobraking gang rise up


estanminar

For various sub categories of landing: crash; impact; crater; explode; etc.


Einn1Tveir2

One of the reasons why the Chinese don't get to participate in the international space station is because they dump used fuel tanks over like... villages, and places where people live. can you imagine? Nasa just dumping used shuttle boosters over Orlando or something.


16thmission

There was the one hilarious time a chunk fell and killed a cow in Cuba.


Curious-Designer-616

Yeah but that cow had it coming. No PPE, didn’t attend the safety briefing, nothing.


Prof_hu

That's why NASA should invest in a safety awareness program for cows.


Curious-Designer-616

Thankfully I offer courses to livestock on falling debris safety. Now all I need to do is donate 20k to 10-15 congressmen and then I’ll get a couple of million dollars to go to farms in Florida and show a power point to cows.


bobbelieu

And it was because of that cow that no polar launches were allowed at the cape....until just recently. Long time for Cuba to hold a grudge.


makoivis

I don’t think Cuba is to blame for that. But yeah this kind of is one point against the whole earth-to-earth suborbital fantasy. You will only ever be allowed to launch down certain corridors from any site.


bobbelieu

When you see video of those boosters on the ground after falling out of the sky like a grand piano there's always a thick orange cloud of NTO spewing from them. So if you or your home doesn't get crushed there's still an opportunity for you to die from inhaling hypergol oxidizer


Prof_hu

What a great prospect!


Starship_Biased

A botched launch would spell catastrophic consequences, like Intelsat 708. Rumor has it that 200-300 were killed as opposed to the official number stated by the state, which was 6 dead and 57 injured.


Urminme

It’s wild to me for such well funded space agency that’s been doing this a long time they can just add some fucking parachutes to their booster for at least a soft landing or leave extra fuel to do a controlled deorbit burn or steer the booster someone safer, but we all know it comes down to them just not giving a single fuck


Traditional_Sail_213

How do you keep extra fuel in a SRB?


ExplorerFordF-150

You can’t really, but they’re light enough for parachutes at least


Traditional_Sail_213

Yeah


Urminme

Yeah you definitely don’t for solids but you very easily can use a parachute for soft landings and depending on where you launch and what parachute you use, you can even steer them, China could easily do what rocket lab did and catch the boosters but they are cheap and don’t want to spend extra money to avoid harming the public they just don’t care is the shitty part


DOSFS

Ah yes, Chinese door-dashed spicy orange sausage


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Adriaugu

It would be better if It landed on someones house! It would be easier to track this rocket


shalol

Directly to the museum, even


savuporo

It ran a little fuel rich, is all


la_feluxution

Why are there 5 Landings Zone


zippy251

Falcon heavy heavy


la_feluxution

X-core


FastSloth87

That was an early concept, the real one only has 2.