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I still can't get over that front flap burning through, being shredded/burned lube on camera and still working when the time came. How did that still work?
I'm not sure it did actually work. When the landing burn kicked in it folded all the way over, so the movement we saw earlier might not have been intentional movement but just the thing moving as the atmosphere was pounding it.
This was the most sci-fi shit I ever saw in my life and it was real, it was a great thing to see. Hopefully next flight it can fly to an actual location and have it land within sight of a fleet of ships.
I would not have believed it in a Sci-Fi movie. Having the heatshield failed on the flap for most of the descent, seing the flap burning in flame and still managing to land softly after that !
What kind of plot armor is that ?
It is incredible that the ship survived that and really shows the kind of resilience starship has !