Comment by jacquesm

Does anybody know why they would re-try the barge thing when they've already got a once-proven way of landing on a pad? What is the benefit of being able to land on a barge? (which to me seems to be a lot harder than landing on land, after all, now you have two craft to coordinate, one of which is only nominally under your control (lat, long, the rest is very much subject to change due to the action of the ocean).