DC-X Flight 8: Reusable Rocket Landing Test

Spaceman Sam Coniglio · Demo · 3 min · 2008 · YouTube title: DC-X Flight 8

Why it's here

HN cites it as proof that vertical-landing reusable rockets were flown decades before SpaceX, including the same hover-slam landing.

What it covers

Footage of DC-X Flight 8 from July 1995 at White Sands, in which the Delta Clipper Experimental reusable rocket turned over into a re-entry profile and re-oriented itself for landing.