Comment Re: SpaceX always have an excuse for failure (Score 1) 110
They claim it was successfully able to return to the surface and perform a soft "landing". Which it did...and it did so in thoroughly bad weather, in high winds and on heavy waves instead of solid ground. Their mission objectives were met completely the moment the rocket cut its engine and started tipping over. Actually fishing the thing out of the ocean intact would have been a nice bonus, but it has nothing to do with their actual plans for recovery and reuse...and the only reason it didn't happen is that nobody wanted to attempt it during the storm.