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Ok, I'm thinking about a rocket with three ducted fans attached. The ducted fans act as the fins on the way up, and the props inside the ducted fans provide some type of autorotation/helicopter recovery on the way down. No motors, just air drag on the props causing them to spin to ease the rocket back to the ground. Or would that resistance create too much drag on the way up? just throwing out an idea here, one that's probably been discussed before and I just haven't checked the archives because I'm stupid. ;-)