aw, I missed the launch too. lol

You can rewatch here by going to the 15 minute mark.
Word on twitter is that stage 1 hit the barge, but again too hard. Waiting for confirmation.
Edit: confirmed:

Ascent successful. Dragon enroute to Space Station. Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival.

I must be looking at something very different than what you are, because I see nothing to rewind.

edit: nevermind, figured it out. It wasn't at the top, it was a little ways down.

Yeah, I edited my post. They closed the livestream and then posted the video a bit later and inbetween you couldn't watch it for a while.

ahhh, so I wasn't going crazy. I felt like an Internet newb for a minute there.

That's too bad about the first stage, though. I was hoping they'd pull it off this time. Maybe we'll get to see footage later.

Yeah, it changed faster than I could edit my post
Well, Elon Musk said on twitter yesterday:

Odds of rocket landing successfully today are still less than 50%. The 80% figure by end of year is only bcs many launches ahead.

They'll get it eventually.
I'll keep an eye out for footage.

Update: Footage suggests the rocket actually landed fine and then tipped over from exces lateral velocity (i.e. moving sideways too fast)

Also, they apparently only have a couple of photos now and will get a full video in a few days when the ship gets back. Will post when I see it.

Oh hey, they got some neat footage from a plane of the landing.
Warning: extreme awesomeness ahead
Looks like they've almost got it

So close!!!!!! Holy carp, they almost could've made it this time! Looks like the last-second corrections threw them off a little.

Indeed!
I found the full and HD footage, including the part where it topples.
Memo to self: do not topple over rockets

That barge must be built pretty tough if they have something to bring back to port after that. Very cool!!! It also looks like the lateral thrusters at the top weren't quite strong enough... but that could've been solved by better precision thrust vectoring.

Well, the first test the boat survived this... which also shows how much they've improved the landing since then. Yep, it's only a matter of time
Also, you watched it just in time, they marked it private in the meantime. It'll come back though.

Yeah, I did watch it just in time. I'm seriously impressed with SpaceX though. This is science-fiction level stuff here. (Well, hard sci-fi, anyway)

Talvieno wrote:That barge must be built pretty tough if they have something to bring back to port after that. Very cool!!! It also looks like the lateral thrusters at the top weren't quite strong enough... but that could've been solved by better precision thrust vectoring.

nah... they overcompensated... the thrust vectoring has enough precision, but the last lateral shove was too much.

Regarding this attempt I read an entry on tagesschau.de about it. It's the website of the Germany's first public broadcasting network and it should be a reference in objective journalism (or at least some sort of objectivism). I couldn't believe what I read there. They put it in a sense of "the idiots crashed the thing again, what a waste of time and resources". I mean, yeah, it didn't go 100% as planned, but we're talking about pioneer work here. At the time I've read it there weren't any comments on the entry, so I can't say if others were so baffled about it...

Anyway, I think these people are doing a great job and hope for the best for their next try