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SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket soars in debut test launch from Florida
Yahoo News ^
| Joey Roulette
Posted on 02/06/2018 8:42:54 PM PST by WMarshal
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The world's most powerful rocket, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, roared into space through clear blue skies in its debut test flight on Tuesday from a Florida launch site where moon missions once began, in another milestone for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private rocket service. ..... Then, capitalizing on cost-cutting reusable rocket technology pioneered by SpaceX, the two boosters flew themselves back to Earth for safe simultaneous touchdowns on twin landing pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, about eight minutes after launch. Each rocket unleashed a double sonic boom as it neared the landing zone.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: defence; rocket; satellite; space
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To: JoSixChip
How should NASA proceed from here...Trump in his tweet was sure to mention them...is there a catch to it being a SpaceX thing?
To: Ozark Tom
These two landed just beautifully....what a sight!
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:18:22 PM PST
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caww
To: caww
That seems like a shot straight out of a sci-fi movie....
But it happened!!
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:20:36 PM PST
by
hoagy62
(America Supreme!)
To: WMarshal
This launch was a really Big Deal!....Just grand too!
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:20:47 PM PST
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caww
To: GoldenState_Rose
How should NASA proceed from here...Trump in his tweet was sure to mention them...is there a catch to it being a SpaceX thing?
There is still a place for NASA. It's not muslem outreach, it's to keep our military the best in the world. That is the governments function, right. What would you expect Trump to do?
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:21:49 PM PST
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JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: hoagy62
That seems like a shot straight out of a sci-fi movie.... But it happened!!
That's right...in fact the payload car and starman look fake....that's because in space there is such clarity..
Imagine this car with Starman in orbit
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:28:32 PM PST
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caww
To: caww
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:30:17 PM PST
by
caww
To: JoSixChip
Here's Starman sitting in the car from inside the ship!...INSANE!...THIS IS TRAVELING IN ORBIT NOW!....Who would have thought!..lolol
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:35:18 PM PST
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caww
To: caww
On the dashboard is a small replica of the car and Starman that ‘Hotwheels” made......so they decided to put it on the dash....
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:36:58 PM PST
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caww
To: caww
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:38:44 PM PST
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caww
To: WMarshal
Just fabulous!
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:41:03 PM PST
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caww
To: caww
Here's Starman sitting in the car from inside the ship!...INSANE!...THIS IS TRAVELING IN ORBIT NOW!....Who would have thought!..lolol
It's genius! Great men are rising again!
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:41:39 PM PST
by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: caww
Reminds me of the opening scene in Heavy Metal (1981).
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:43:39 PM PST
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Gideon7
To: caww
As it passes over Australia....from inside the ship! Crazy fun!!!! and it's just so hard to believe possible.but it is real!
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:43:43 PM PST
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caww
To: Gideon7
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:47:07 PM PST
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Gideon7
To: JoSixChip
Ugh please don’t remind me about prior admins.
So is there any big SPACE (not necessarily military) project or goal set for NASA? It just seems to me other countries are ahead or on par with their stuff at this point.
*sigh*
To: JoSixChip
Sme mind blowing scientific progress in these times....Even if you could care less about space and rockets — it’s difficult to understate what an enormous achievement this is!
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posted on
02/06/2018 10:50:35 PM PST
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caww
To: GoldenState_Rose
If you’re sighing then you’re out of touch entirely.....
This is a massive milestone. It could change everything going forward. What an incredible moment!!!
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02/06/2018 10:52:25 PM PST
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caww
To: caww
They had intended to send the car in a heliocentric orbit out to the distance of Mars, but the booster had more thrust than they expected so the car’s orbit will take it past Mars and out to the asteroid belt. Wheee!
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02/06/2018 10:55:28 PM PST
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Gideon7
To: caww
....That was history right there! The synchronized landings of the boosters was incredible!..Stunning!
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02/06/2018 10:55:43 PM PST
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caww
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