First successful Space X landing on their drone ship!

pretty frickin gnarly

 

That's amazing. I used to work in Hawthorne and we shared a parking structure with SpaceX. I would always pass by their HQ there in hopes of catching a glimpse of something through an open bay door.

 

I watched it live and literally cried a bit.

For all the other bullshit we go through in our lives, we're absurdly fortunate to not just have been born now in history, but geography. That I can watch this 25 story office building go slamming into fucking orbit and the engine, going 1000+MPH and over 100KM up in the air, can gently touch down on a 100 foot square bobbing concrete and steel pontoon off the Florida coast 4 minutes later is nothing short of miraculous. The unlucky kids born in Syria and Iran don't get to see this shit.

 

That's amazing! In my offshore days we wouldn't even have dropped an ROV over the side in those kind of seas, let alone land a rocket on a barge. Good grief that's impressive.

 

For those wondering where in the vid.... It happens at 29:30