This looks legit. I'll remember the showerhead era fondly, but sometimes the graybeards are right.
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the showerhead era
The wildest era was definitely "maybe we can fire directly onto the concrete".
They could. And they did. Once.
Using a rocket as an excavator 🌌🧠
Watching chunks of concrete get hurled in every direction during IFT-1 was insane. That whole flight was. Engines cutting out. FTS not taking it out. Spinning out of control.