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Re: Parachutes... No, other end.

Unfortunately the engines are the heavy bit, the rest of the stage is a float. Only a rigid flotation ring* would keep a top heavy tube safely dry in a heavy swell. In effect, you'd need to take the barge into space.

* Well the floats could be inflatable, but they'd need a very wide rigid frame to hold them well away from the first stage.

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