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Is Elon Musk going to embarrass Bezos? Just minutes to go.
Youtube ^ | jan 13 | justanotherokie

Posted on 01/13/2025 8:38:59 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie

Blastoff is imminent.


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1 posted on 01/13/2025 8:38:59 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Link to rocket launch


2 posted on 01/13/2025 8:42:15 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: Mean Daddy

It’s not the big boy. Just a starlink.


3 posted on 01/13/2025 8:48:04 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Mean Daddy

click on the youtube


4 posted on 01/13/2025 8:48:37 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Successful Falcon 9 launches should hardly be surprising or embarrassing anymore.


5 posted on 01/13/2025 8:48:38 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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I never get tired of the landings


6 posted on 01/13/2025 8:52:53 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Launch was successful. It was visable for seconds before it disappeared in the low cloud cover.


7 posted on 01/13/2025 8:53:22 AM PST by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Never gets old.


8 posted on 01/13/2025 8:54:37 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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1st stage landing successful.


9 posted on 01/13/2025 8:57:01 AM PST by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Another boring Falcon 9 shot. Launch, land, repeat. Nothing ever goes kaboom! ;^)


10 posted on 01/13/2025 8:59:08 AM PST by CtBigPat
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Competition is good. Right now SpaceX is so far ahead it’s hard to see how Blue Origin is ever going to be real competition, but I’m rooting for Bezos and Blue Origin to get serious.


11 posted on 01/13/2025 9:00:25 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Thanks for the heads up, and that would be a YES!

And WOW! This was SpaceX’s SIXTH launch of 2025 already. They’re rocking it.


12 posted on 01/13/2025 9:04:17 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Musk needs competitors, otherwise a future dem administration will bring antitrust charges.


13 posted on 01/13/2025 9:04:24 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Me too. Kudos to Musk and SpaceX. But I want them to have healthy competition so they don’t lose their edge like Boeing did.


14 posted on 01/13/2025 9:04:34 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I just switch to Star Link and love it. No more buffeting.


15 posted on 01/13/2025 9:13:35 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

It really is amazing that SpaceX went from 0 to having the best success rates in the world for satellite launches. Beating out advanced countries that have been doing it decades.


16 posted on 01/13/2025 9:14:06 AM PST by Mount Athos
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We are ‘just’ at the point of expecting reusable rockets that land themselves! ...along with high-speed internet from wireless satellites!

:)


17 posted on 01/13/2025 9:21:34 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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I stayed up waiting for Blue Origin to launch, and they kept moving the launch time by adding more minutes. It was 2AM when I said “enough, I am going to bed.”


18 posted on 01/13/2025 9:26:33 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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I’ve watched so many of these blast offs.

But the recovery and upright landing of the booster boggles my mind every time!


19 posted on 01/13/2025 9:33:08 AM PST by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: Mount Athos; fuzzylogic

After all these years. When I was a kid watching Rocky Jones on Saturday morning I wondered why we never landed that way. Now it’s finally happening some 70 years later.

The real problem is Government cannot innovate. They get something working and stay with it like Russia and their automobiles. No vision.


20 posted on 01/13/2025 9:40:28 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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