It fairly boggles the mind that this is possible.
Just thinking about the math necessary to pull something like this off makes my right-hemisphere-dominant brain hurt.
If I was a cynical conspiracy theorist, I’d swear that the video footage you see below is actually footage of a rocket launched from a barge and played back in reverse.
Pretty amazing! "Watch as SpaceX successfully lands a freakin' rocket on a freakin' barge" slate.com/blogs/the_slat…
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Fish & Bicycles (@FishandBicycles) April 08, 2016