Move over SpaceX! Honda is now making rockets. This could be a game changer!
One difference you’ll notice about this flight and SpaceX’s flights… Honda’s didn’t blow up! 
It’s very clever but not really sure of the viability of reusable rockets. Do they actually get reused? The advantage of throw away rockets is that the fuel is used entirely for getting the payload into space.
Anyway what would I know?
Perhaps if they are planning to take people up into space they want to be able to bring them home Bruce.
Incidentally, I thought Honda had been taken over by Toyota?
No, these are the first stage of the rocket, nothing to do with a payload returning. In the Apollo program they were sent into orbit around the sun I think and all except one still orbit the sun.
Ah I see Bruce, all the power and fuel needed to get it off the ground, and not so much effort or fuel needed to bring the payload home, gravity will do that.
Not so much to “get it off the ground” but to get it into orbit. To do so requires a velocity of 9.3–10 km/s (over 20,000 MPH), and it takes a lot of power to reach that velocity.
No, they fell back to earth and into the Atlantic ocean.
Now this brings into action my imagination
Just think of an outer space punchup between the Russian -American-Chinese and Japanese space rockets. This is my bit of outer space Russia so piss off says the American space rocket, The Chinese one slides between them sideway, while the Japanse one called “Ho Dun That” and shite on all of them.
The English one never got off the ground as politicians could not make up their minds which end pointed skywards. Even the Irish invented one that just went around in circles. The Scottish had the answer. Instead of a rocket parachute landing they attached kilts as they wanted a soft landing.
Yes even he French invented one but it only went on water. The Italians are still in the drawing board stage, but will be soon giving up.
The power of dreams.
It might have been the second or third stage then, I know one ended up going the wrong side of the moon and ended up in a very elliptical Earth orbit and reappears occasionally.
Found it in Wikipedia (cut and paste):
On September 3, 2002, astronomer Bill Yeung discovered a suspected asteroid, which was given the discovery designation J002E3. It appeared to be in orbit around the Earth, and was soon discovered from spectral analysis to be covered in white titanium dioxide, which was a major constituent of the paint used on the Saturn V. Calculation of orbital parameters led to tentative identification as being the Apollo 12 S-IVB stage.[115] Mission controllers had planned to send Apollo 12’s S-IVB into solar orbit after separation from the Apollo spacecraft, but it is believed the burn lasted too long, and hence did not send it close enough to the Moon, so it remained in a barely stable orbit around the Earth and Moon. In 1971, through a series of gravitational perturbations, it is believed to have entered in a solar orbit and then returned into weakly captured Earth orbit 31 years later. It left Earth orbit again in June 2003.[116]
Ah, it’s the part of the rocket that propelled the astronauts to the moon and back. Once back in earth’s orbit, only the command module carrying the astronauts returns to earth while the S-IVB itself gets jettisoned into space, but it decided it didn’t want to go.