SPACE-X Video had to share this when I found it!

[Castille7]

1,000m Up and 1,000m Down for a Perfect Landing!

[EnderInferno]

Nice! I saw their 850m video a while back, this one was even better. can't wait to see them do a full blown test. (IE launch it to full altitude and bring it back)

[Castille7]

I thought this kind of stuff was only possible on KSP?....lol

[KSK]

Nice! I saw their 850m video a while back, this one was even better. can't wait to see them do a full blown test. (IE launch it to full altitude and bring it back)

Already done - or sort of. On their last flight SpaceX managed to soft-land the first stage on water, the idea being to use water landings as test flights for an eventual recovery on land. What I didn't appreciate until recently was that they did the water landing in the middle of a storm. Yup - couldn't get a boat or a plane near the recovery site due to bad weather but they managed to land the booster in one piece! The bad weather is also why the footage from the landing is so bad - priority was given to transmitting telemetry from the booster rather than pretty pictures.

[Patupi]

And this isn't the grasshopper test-bed system any more is it? This is actually a first stage with fixed legs, albeit set up more like a booster on the Falcon Heavy. This is definitely hot stuff!