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sparknlaunch
on May 31, 2012
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SpaceX Dragon Ship Falls Back to Earth
Wow! Wonder if the weight of a canister and mobility of a plane may help in connecting the two together? Or make it harder? Awesome story.
planetguy
on May 31, 2012
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The canisters had little parachutes, so it's not
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omegant
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http://youtu.be/9jOGicfF_vQ
JoeAltmaier
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Just barely less amazing. Still like finding one particular mosquito in Pittsburgh?
planetguy
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If the mosquito were two feet across and equipped with a radio transmitter, yeah.
JoeAltmaier
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No, Pittsburgh is a lot smaller than the reentry pattern of a falling satellite. By orders of magnitude. Thus the scaled comparison.
drbawb
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And I assume this was all necessary because: (a) They wanted to see if it could be done. or (b) They couldn't yet build a digital camera and/or digital cameras didn't work in space because of some obscure issues with radiation?
planetguy
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It was 1960. No digital cameras. The CCD wouldn't be invented for nine more years!
dredmorbius
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They have those in Alaska.
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