SpaceX's Landing at Sea

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(1) CRS-8 Fragon Mission. SpaceX, Apr 8, 2016 (video).
www.spacex.com/webcast

Note:
(a) The video lasts more than 33 minutes. The successful landing occurred at 27 minutes. It is clear that the rocket and spacecraft have cameras.  (Prior to this, SpaceX failed a handful of times in vertical landing at sea, ending in explosion.
(b) SpaceX CRS-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_CRS-8
("It was the tenth flight of a Dragon cargo spacecraft and the eighth operational mission contracted to SpaceX by NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services program," from which the acronym CRS is derived)

(c) Iain Banks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks
(1954 – 2013; Scottish; "On Jan 23, 2015, SpaceX's CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk named two of the company's autonomous spaceport drone ships [qv] Just Read The Instructions and Of Course I Still Love You, after ships from Banks's [1988] novel The Player of Games")
(i) The ships from Banks's sci-fi novel are described elsewhere as "two of the sentient, planet-sized Culture starships."
(ii) sentient (adj): "simple definition: able to feel, see, hear, smell, or taste"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentient