THE VIDEO SHELF · rocket landing failures
How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster
SpaceX's own compilation of failed orbital booster landing attempts, set to sound, showing the crashes before landings succeeded.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN uses it as evidence that SpaceX iterated through visible failures and is open and humorous about them.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- SpaceX
- Topic
- rocket landing failures
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Speaking of not being ashamed of failures, I've always liked their compilation of them (with sound it's even better): [VIDEO]
Medox on Hacker News · 2018-02
In Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch TodayAgree it is strange. I love their "How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster" film. [VIDEO] Watching the countdown net it seemed plausible that they didn't know whether it had successfully landed either.
peterwaller on Hacker News · 2018-02
In SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launchesEveryone is commenting saying how mundane it has become to see the landings. Hence you might enjoy this official SpaceX Blooper reel from 2017 that shows the numerous spectacular failures that they worked through. Innovation is a type of gamble. People forget that. "SpaceX: How …
codeulike on Hacker News · 2020-09
In SpaceX Launch: Starlink 12 [video]
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