The more I read this, the more sure I was that this was at DVT. The 3 Golf Juliet sealed it. I’ve made a couple of carrier landings in that poor ol’ girl myself 
I am too much of a coward to do the bouncey-bounce thing. If I make the first bounce off the runway, I always put in just a little power to cushion the next touchdown into something that looks normal.
One of my instructors used to call the bad landings “Mutt” landings ( ie when the tires go “Yelp, Yelp, YEEElp”)
I have been pursuing this for 70 years since soloing a Cub in 1950. I have owned over 30 planes and now fly a Husky taildragger, 2-3 time a week. The challange is a wheel landing in gusty x-winds on pavement. Grass doesn’t count. I have thought of getting a nose dragger for my old age but I am having too much fun. Maybe when I turn 90.
I seems to me that good landings only occur when there is no one else around to observe it. Have passengers onboard or a crowd on the ground and you will mess it up every time.
One time as a passenger on a Southwest flight, the pilot did an unusually bad landing. As we taxied to the terminal, the flight attendant announced, “please remain seated until Captain Crunch gets us to the gate”.
It seems to me… Stupid autocorrect.
Bouncy, bouncy, boink should be the title of a chapter in the AIM. 
The best reason to date for these launches, by far. Although each launch yields gains in technology, they are still a “Told y’all we could do it,” which is just a few steps (and a few $mil) above “Hey, watch this - hold my beer” in reality. Even if it is called a publicity stunt, the end result is millions of dollars for one of the finest organizations on this ball of dirt we live on.
Can someone please calculate the greenhouse gas impact of each one of these launches? It’s gotta be astronomical, especially coming from someone supposedly “saving the planet” by selling electric cars. Hypocrisy much? Not to mention the actual impacts. Tour bus rides way out to high earth orbit and back for the “masses” seems dumb to me. Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should. Imho.
PS. The dude paid Musk $200 million for the flight and hopes to raise $200 million for charity. Great that he’s raising money for a wonderful cause. But he coulda just written a $200 million check to St Judes and skipped the trip to space. It’s clearly an attempt to quiet the potential critics of two billionaires doing stupid stuff. Imho.
A few notes:
SpaceX is working on ways to mitigate the effect of greenhouse gases produced by its launches.
Check out The Everyday Astronaut on YT for an analysis of the relative amounts of pollution caused by all rocket launches versus other sources.
Check out Engineering Explained for whether you should trade in your car to save the planet.
SpaceX isn’t in the space tourism game, though they will certainly take the money, if it can be profitable. At least you get real space.
Of course, you could have found all of that yourself, but I’m guessing you just wanted to puff out your chest a bit. So be it, but Musk is on a different planet than the other players in the private space game. And at some point, the last sentence may become a literal fact.
Pretty close Derek, pretty close.
The whole point of this exercise was to demonstrate that no human on-board inputs were necessary to launch and recover the spacecraft. I’m betting my kids will live to see the day when a commercial aircraft (notice I didn’t say airplane) carrying paying passengers does the same thing.
About greenhouse gas.
Most folks have NO IDEA of the % of CO2 in air.
Well, it is .04%.
That is unbelievably minuscule & science proves it.
I know, many will argue this subject.