5 million pounds of thrust. Holy crap!
Musk sez there's a 50/50 chance it will go BOOM....
Musk sez there's a 50/50 chance it will go BOOM....
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Falcon Heavy Launch Live Feed
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You beat me to it.
I was just creating a thread.
Very excited, here. Rockets: always have been since I was a kid.
Musk's red sportscar, and a David Bowie song, are onboard, making it even more interesting.
Here's an animation:
I was just creating a thread.
Very excited, here. Rockets: always have been since I was a kid.
Musk's red sportscar, and a David Bowie song, are onboard, making it even more interesting.
Here's an animation:
The window: 2:20pm EST to 4:00pm
Once upon a time there was a nun who wrote a letter to a space program manager admonishing him for spending so much on space when there were staving innocents on Earth. His reply to her was interesting. It reads a little bit like the kind of thing that goes around that's fake, but it isn't.
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html
Rescheduled to 3:45 est, and a 15 minute window.
Wow.... that's all I got...... unbelievable!!!
queenslegs
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Yes, that was pretty spectacular. When those two boosters landed simultaneously, very cool... Think I need a re-entry burn.....
woo hoo! I'd seen the animation (the 2nd video here) before. It can give you a better idea of what you saw live (better vantage points).
Something that moved me was the warehouse of cheering engineer kids, sounding just like they were at a ball game. I imagined they were Apollo engineers, where the average age was under 30 after all. You know Apollo was just like that, though publicly it was reserved and respectable in keeping with the times and that image is still the one we have.
Something that moved me was the warehouse of cheering engineer kids, sounding just like they were at a ball game. I imagined they were Apollo engineers, where the average age was under 30 after all. You know Apollo was just like that, though publicly it was reserved and respectable in keeping with the times and that image is still the one we have.
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Amazing.
The Space-X coverage was superb.
Like Queeenslegs, I thought the simultaneous landing of the boosters was just fantastic !
The Space-X coverage was superb.
Like Queeenslegs, I thought the simultaneous landing of the boosters was just fantastic !
Pic of the landing of the main rocket on the drone ship:
Click on the picture to enlarge.
Click on the picture to enlarge.
printed on a circuit board on the Tesla.........gotta love it!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Be31IJxgOoK/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Be31IJxgOoK/
Instead of loading up David Bowie's Space Man or whatever, wouldn't the lead sound track of "Heavy Metal" been a better choice? OKOKOK it's a Tesla Roadster and not a Corvette but com'on ....I forget who sings it and my copy is in the shop..
Don Felder - Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride)....
Yes very cool stuff, the main booster didn't have enough fuel left for the landing and had a "hard" stop when some engines couldn't fire. A simply amazing "private party" endeavour. Good deal on a used high miles Tesla, local pick up only.
Thought this was a pretty good "civilian" look at Space X plans
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16983040/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-launch-schedule-spaceflight
Hard to fathom the guts of Musk to attempt the "impossible" on so many fronts at once.
Alex Post
"If NASA budgets dry up there’s always China or Europe. Ultimately it doesn’t matter where the money comes from, as long as we reach Mars."
Thought this was a pretty good "civilian" look at Space X plans
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16983040/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-launch-schedule-spaceflight
Hard to fathom the guts of Musk to attempt the "impossible" on so many fronts at once.
Alex Post
"If NASA budgets dry up there’s always China or Europe. Ultimately it doesn’t matter where the money comes from, as long as we reach Mars."
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motorbikerx
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Send the Interceptor into space with Lemmy!
One secret seems to be he's not flabbergasted by failure. He just takes it in stride, fixes it, and plods on. Unlimited resources help him maintain that attitude no doubt.
I am kind of pissed that they're a half-decade behind schedule, really. The FH was originally supposed to launch in 2013 and take tourists around the Moon and back late THIS year.
I've been looking at live feeds on YouTube of that sports car with the astronaut dummy behind the wheel flying through space. It cracks me up thinking that some distant alien life form might someday see this and think WTH? 
motorbikerx
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Imagine what NASA could do if they got thier shit together....remember 1969?
