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SpaceX asks for public to help recover video of historic spaceship landing

The modern mantra of “if it’s not on YouTube, it didn’t happen” surely doesn’t apply to South African-born entrepreneur Elon Musk. We already believed him when he told us that his firm, SpaceX, had managed to safely land a rocket used to launch a space capsule last week.*

But since the camera never lies, and the footage of the first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket extending its legs would be invaluable for the historical record, SpaceX has released a short clip showing the last moments captured by the on-board camera.

Sadly, the footage is mostly digital garble, but it has been repaired in software to extract some sense from the noise. We’re sure we saw a Martian waving at 0.6 seconds though.

Here it is in full.

The guys at SpaceX are obviously keen to try and recover more images from the mess, and have put out a call for members of the public (and experts, natch) who think they can help to contact them. Full details – and the raw video files – are available here.

If you have any good ideas, let us know too.

*Safely land in this case means splash down gently into the Atlantic Ocean and then be smashed to pieces in a storm. Theoretically, the first stage rocket could have been recovered, if the waves hadn’t got to it first. It’s still a massive achievement, you know?

[Image – SpaceX]

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