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Old July 24th 14, 05:48 AM posted to sci.space.history
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Default Falcon 9 First Stage Return During ORBCOMM Mission

Rick Jones explained on 7/22/2014 :
David Spain wrote:
The following video of the F9 first stage return was just posted to
YouTube today by SpaceX. The video is abbreviated 1/2 way through I
suppose to skip the boring multi-minute reentry part and finished
with the deployment of the landing legs and tip-over as the stage
hits the water.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQnR5fhCXkQ


Kind of interesting to this observer from the peanut gallery how the
exhaust plume (term?) isn't nearly so neat and tidy on the way down as
it was on the way up.


Well, it is blowing into the wind on the way down. On the way up, it
uses the booster body as a windshield.

/dps

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