This whole “space” thing is really hard, as this past weekend’s SpaceX incident revealed. The American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company attempted to land a Falcon 9 rocket on a barge floating on the Pacific Ocean—and it allllmooost made it.

Here’s a video of the near-successful attempt:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BAqirNbwEc0/

“Falcon lands on droneship, but the lockout collet doesn’t latch on one the four legs,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk explains on his official Instagram account, “causing it to tip over post landing. Root cause may have been ice buildup due to condensation from heavy fog at liftoff.”

Musk also took to Twitter to further discuss the (expensive) incident, this time with a bit of bonus humor:

Definitely harder to land on a ship. Similar to an aircraft carrier vs land: much smaller target area, that's also translating & rotating. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 17, 2016

However, that was not what prevented it being good. Touchdown speed was ok, but a leg lockout didn't latch, so it tipped over after landing. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 17, 2016

Well, at least the pieces were bigger this time! Won't be last RUD, but am optimistic about upcoming ship landing. pic.twitter.com/w007TccANJ — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 17, 2016

So that’s when Reddit user Space_Scumbag stepped in with his obvious solution: Jaegers!

Jaegers, of course, are the robot-weapon stars of the 2013 Guillermo del Toro film Pacific Rim.

Below is his solution to SpaceX’s tiny (TINY!) barge-landing issue. Behold:

CAKE, see?

SpaceX Propulsion Engineer and Reddit user Byrdman Ranger then chose that very moment to pop into the post’s comments section…

The scene was made with space flight simulator video game Kerbal Space Program, which, notably, both the likes of Musk and NASA itself have taken interest in. To learn more about the game, check out Reddit’s Kerbal Space Program community.