See Elon Musk's $6 million rocket part land in a boat in the ocean. (via CNBCMakeIt)
"It comes in hot," Musk said on"It's coming in at basically five times faster than a bullet from an assault rifle. It's insane," Musk said. "And then it hits the atmosphere, it goes subsonic [flying at a speed less than that of sound]. We deploy the parachutes. And the parachute itself is a steerable parachute.... So it's steering itself down....""[T]he boat closes a data link with each fairing half. And the boat adjusts course automatically.
"It's insane!""Full and rapid reusability is the holy grail of access to space and is a fundamental step towards it, without which we cannot become a multi-planet species," Musk said on "CBS Sunday Morning." "We cannot have a base on the moon. We cannot have a city on Mars without full and rapid reusability.
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