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== Flight 22 landing: Significance of extra push - consequently phrasing looks wrong ==

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There was an agreement that an extra push would be given to reduce time to reach final orbit. This came from '''second''' stage being run until depletion of fuel rather than shutting down when a target orbit was reached. This has very little, if any, effect on amount of fuel left in '''first''' stage. I don't mind this piece of information being given - Not quite sure where I would move it to. Seems well covered in [[Falcon_9_Flight_22]] and not sure it needs to be here as well. However, I do object to phrasing that indicates that because of the extra push there is little fuel left to land the first stage. Far, far, more important is that the payload was heavy for being lifted to GTO. ''therefore''Unless you have or there is littlea fuelreference leftindicating tosuch landimportance, thesuch firsta stagelevel of importance should not be implied by the article. So the phrasing should reflect this. If other editors want to insist on including mention of the extra push fine but for accuracy don't phrase to indicate this is primary reason for little fuel being left to land first stage. Can we please change the phrasing or remove it? [[User:C-randles|crandles]] ([[User talk:C-randles|talk]]) 14:12, 9 April 2016 (UTC)