Timeline for Why does Blue Origin land the crew capsule separate from the booster?
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| Nov 1, 2016 at 9:57 | vote | accept | LocalFluff | ||
| Oct 31, 2016 at 21:24 | comment | added | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | They could stabilize it when the parachutes are deployed when in the atmosphere. I suspect it's the very high atmosphere (20 km or so) as well as the on the ground situation that having them as two separate vehicles helps. | |
| Oct 31, 2016 at 21:15 | comment | added | LocalFluff | Couldn't parachutes on the integrated booster+crew module, or even the crew module firing its braking rockets from the top of the integrated stack at landing, effectively stabilize the landing with force from above the center of mass? Or designing the crew model around the bottom of the launch stack instead of on the top of it? | |
| Oct 31, 2016 at 19:51 | history | answered | PearsonArtPhoto♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |