Posted on 02/06/2018 1:11:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Apart from not yet knowing whether the core booster stuck its landing on the drone ship, the rest of the launch went perfectly!
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I really like the whizzy graphics and multi-media stuff they do...excellent job giving people visuals during the launch.
Correction.
South African American at their best. (Musk)
In Afrikaans there is a saying ” ‘N boer maak ‘n plan” – which literally means the farmer makes a plan, but it is used in the instance where one must think on their feet and devise a new way of looking at something . . .
It is why merit based immigration is so important.
You’re saying the wanted to also retrieve the largest single booster....and land it on a ship at sea which was shown briefly ? Wowser. the 2 mini-boosters came back as if the whole show was being played back in reverse. Mind blowing.
That was an incredible sight. I’ve see that before on a Galaxy magazine cover or a science fiction movie. But this was REAL.
So hard to believe that is a REAL picture. Amazing.
CNN just reported that there is no word on whether the 3rd Booster has landed yet....
Unreal. I guess they want the positive news to live until they figure out a talking point of failure of the big booster landing/crash.
Not mini-boosters. It's three full-size Falcon-9 rockets strapped together. The two side-boosters were both on their second flight. Center booster was new; never flown before.
That is right out of the movie, Heavy Metal.
I think “athletic” is the most appropriate term. :)
My new desktop pic!
I watched all our launches, cheering the successes and feeling down when we had one go awry or explode on the pad or in flight. I remember the fear, then tears in my eye when Alan Shepard rode the first manned Project Mercury sub-orbital flight on January 19, 1961, and was so relieved when they said he was down safely.
That's the way it was for the coming manned & unmanned NASA flights and I watched every one that I could. John Glenn's "God Speed" first orbital flight, the remaining Mercury flights, the Gemini missions, then Apollo flights that took us to the moon. We are still the only nation to have done that and I am so damn proud I got to live to see it but even more sad that we gave up on colonizing the moon and Mars for low orbit objectives. I doubt I will live to see the Mars manned landing unless I somehow get to my 90s or 100s--
I watch the Shuttles launches, the two disasters and then the space station and deep probes to the planets. I still get goose bumps and wonderment watching.
Now today, Fox did not even show the Falcon heavy launch live and it was over an hour afterwards that they even mentioned. Don't know about the other news channels-- I streamed it on SpaceX.com, shouting and fist pumping the launch as tear came again when it appeared to go so right with the twin landings of the side boosters. And even with the apparent glitch on the center core landing on the drone ship, I am so happy I watched it to again experience the heart thumping joy of my nation doing something right!
Now days most kids and young adults don't care or even seem to notice it, but that is their loss. I saw it and boy, oh, boy, did I enjoy it!
You can also watch live. Should be in a parking orbit for another 3 or 4 hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M
I hate Elon Musk’s politics and the subsidies for his Tesla. But damn I do love his rockets. Was that his personal Tesla they sent up?
As this was a test flight no scientific payloads would have been on board anyway. This was a stroke of brilliance to put that Tesla in an elliptical orbit around Earth, Mars, and the Sun.
Good post.
AMEN!!!
Ditto that. I rushed home for lunch and put Fox on, then figured their non-coverage was due to the hold to mid-afternoon. To hear they did not cover it is sad. It reminds me of Hal Holbrook’s monologue in Capricorn 1 explaining that people called in to complain that the last launch preempted I Love Lucy.
Yes, to hear the staff cheering brought goosebumps. And the video of the boosters returning to their landing pads is phenomenal!
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