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JF Mezei wrote:

And how will SpaceX make its capsules re-usable ? Won't the impact of
landing on land cause some structural issues with the capsule ?


How hard do you think the thing is hitting? They'll make them
reusable by designing it in at the start. They land under power. How
much 'structural impact' is there to airplanes landing on land?

Specifically, the Super Draco engines on the capsule will be used to
soft land the capsule. The parachutes won't be used on a "nominal"
landing, but are there as a backup and in off-nominal cases like a
launch abort. In other words, Dragon V2 will land very similarly to how
the Falcon 9 first stage recently landed.

No doubt this won't happen right away on manned Dragon V3 missions to
ISS since NASA will likely dictate a "tried and trusted" landing mode,
just like Orion. Unfortunately, innovation in manned spaceflight really
isn't NASA's strong suit these days. :-(

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer