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06-28-2016, 12:16 AM
SpaceX fan builds mini Falcon 9 rocket with a drone, lands it in a pool
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Well, this is kind of adorable.*
An intrepid space fan used a flying drone to reproduce a SpaceX rocket landing in miniature form. Two new videos show the tiny rocket coming in for a landing on a mockup of the private spaceflight company's drone ship floating in a swimming pool.
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk tweets video of SpaceX rocket's crash landing (http://mashable.com/2016/06/16/elon-musk-spacex-fail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
"The legs deploy in flight, and I've got a removable 'Flame' that can be attached," the YouTube description of a 30-second cut of the video (https://youtu.be/Jb1uXWZL6Os) says.*"The Droneship is made from 1" insulation foam, and is built to the correct scale for the 1m tall rocket. It is a tiny landing pad, and give me even more respect for the amazing accomplishment that is landing the real one!" Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/27/spacex-falcon-9-drone-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Well, this is kind of adorable.*
An intrepid space fan used a flying drone to reproduce a SpaceX rocket landing in miniature form. Two new videos show the tiny rocket coming in for a landing on a mockup of the private spaceflight company's drone ship floating in a swimming pool.
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk tweets video of SpaceX rocket's crash landing (http://mashable.com/2016/06/16/elon-musk-spacex-fail/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
"The legs deploy in flight, and I've got a removable 'Flame' that can be attached," the YouTube description of a 30-second cut of the video (https://youtu.be/Jb1uXWZL6Os) says.*"The Droneship is made from 1" insulation foam, and is built to the correct scale for the 1m tall rocket. It is a tiny landing pad, and give me even more respect for the amazing accomplishment that is landing the real one!" Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/27/spacex-falcon-9-drone-video/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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