Sucess at last. And not a dime of your tax dollars made this possible.
1 posted on
09/28/2008 7:09:41 PM PDT by
anymouse
To: KevinDavis; Shuttle Shucker
2 posted on
09/28/2008 7:10:51 PM PDT by
anymouse
To: anymouse
3 posted on
09/28/2008 7:15:27 PM PDT by
hattend
(Obama has gone from voting PRESENT, to not even wanting to BE present! Call me if you need me!)
To: anymouse
"There are only a handful of countries on Earth that have done it. It's normally a country thing, not a company thing." Buddy, you just said a mouthful!! Congratulations!
To: anymouse
This is great news when the US government space program is lagging behind others.
Wonder how Russia and China’s commercial, civilian space program is going?
To: anymouse
6 posted on
09/28/2008 7:19:37 PM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: anymouse
Yahhooooooo!!!! This is great!!!!
Can we replace big Government faster than they are taking over private enterprise????
The race is on!!
7 posted on
09/28/2008 7:23:27 PM PDT by
FreeAtlanta
(NOBAMA - it is for our future)
To: anymouse
To: anymouse
Come a long way from the V2
9 posted on
09/28/2008 7:26:27 PM PDT by
valkyry1
(McCain/Palin 2008)
To: anymouse
A pic from the flight:
The engine bell there is glowing red. Its designed to glow as hot as white hot, according to the video.
To: anymouse
"That was freakin' awesome," Not what you usually hear from Houston after a NASA launch.
11 posted on
09/28/2008 7:39:12 PM PDT by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: anymouse
If SpaceX can get the Falcon9 operational, this may open the door for the first privately-operated manned spaced station by 2015, using space station modules developed by Bigelow Aerospace and the Dragon manned spacecraft SpaceX is now developing.
To: anymouse
So I guess this means that if you decide to take one of these trips into sub orbit, you have a one in four chance of experiencing before you die on re-entry. Cool.
To: Not a dime of tax payer money spent? Don't kid yourself. You can bet your bottom dollar that every grant and tax write off available (and even some not intended for such things)has been exploited. there is always taxpayers money available for any little thing you can imagine.
To: anymouse
As it got closer and closer to 1st stage cutoff, I started holding my breath - and then, it dropped away clean, stage lit - I could not stop saying it:
GO! BABY! GO!
This is the true space age, the new era has begun!
16 posted on
09/28/2008 9:08:25 PM PDT by
no-s
To: anymouse
Very nice, and that nozzle housing sure gets hot.
I noted that customary vibration seemed to be almost non-existent here. That was about as smooth as it gets.
19 posted on
09/29/2008 12:26:33 AM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(McCain, the Ipecac president... Obama the strychnine president...)
To: anymouse
....electrifying launch , wow , a "green" rocket!
Don't worry, baby, eh eh eh eh, it's electric.
20 posted on
10/03/2008 1:25:03 PM PDT by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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