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Next Falcon 9 to Attempt Soft Splashdown

posted by Dopefish on Friday February 21 2014, @01:00PM   
from the rocket-kits-are-awesome-these-days dept.

WildWombat writes:

"nasaspaceflight.com reports that the next Falcon 9 flight will attempt a soft splashdown off the coast of Florida to test its newly installed landing legs. If successful, this will be a major step along the path to a reusable rocket.

The flight, CRS-3, is an ISS resupply mission scheduled for March 16th. The pace of SpaceX technology development is truly impressive."

• work 'em to death work 'em to death (Score: 4, Interesting) by bigjimslade on Friday February 21 2014, @05:26PM

  by bigjimslade (212) on Friday February 21 2014, @05:26PM (#4555)

  ...The pace of SpaceX technology development is truly impressive...

  I would expect that, given they are working their staff to death.
  Talked with a few engineers that have left; one just got off a 140 hour work week, which drove him to leave. not sure there is much choice for aero engineers, though.

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• Re:work 'em to death (Score: 3, Funny) by Blackmoore on Friday February 21 2014, @06:05PM

  by Blackmoore (57) on Friday February 21 2014, @06:05PM (#4572) Journal

  So, it really was like working for a bond villain?

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• Re:work 'em to death (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @06:30PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @06:30PM (#4581)

  140 hours? That's 4h/day off work. I hope he slept in the office because otherwise his commute would eat up half of his sleep time. Crazy.

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