Posted on 04/20/2023 5:32:06 AM PDT by know.your.why
Heeere we goooo. Fingers toes and eyes crossed for a successful test flight of the 33-Raptor engine Superheavy booster and Starship first time into space. Both vehicles are planned to splash down...the booster in the Gulf of Mexico and Starship off of Hawaii.
Perhaps.
But it bears honorable mention that the Saturn V - to which they were both comparing and gaslighting supremacy - had a perfect launch record.
I’ve never seen anything like that display. It was rather insulting.
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Apollo 1 wasn’t even supposed to launch, and still managed to kill the crew. The Apollo safety record is not as good as you imply. We learned a lot from that disaster, too. but it was much more costly data. This one is just lost hardware and money.
Sorry, it apparently was fiction, and I didn’t catch that. My apologies.
Anyone who's been on morphine and lots of it (I have, as I've been through 4 major lower back surgeries) knows this:
the constipation morphine causes is quite unpleasant. Just sayin'.
I watched that video and noticed two things:
1. Five engines didn't fire and it still got off the ground in a big hurry.
2. The rocket appeared to hold together at a high rate of speed even while "flipping" That seemed pretty remarkable to me. So is it ok to expect the next launch to be 100% successful then? Like I said, kinda spoiled with SpaceX's successes.
You are aware that flight computers detonated the vehicle precisely 4 minutes and zero seconds after liftoff, a planned detonation after detection of anomalies in the flight? Morons at a couple of news stations were saying it spontaneously exploded "moments" after liftoff. Negativity and false statements abound. The flight had many successes, and the explosion was not a failure.
I saw three engines didn't fire at liftoff. Shortly after, a fourth engine flamed out. Then some moments later a fifth engine flamed out. The SpaceX/NASA feed showed status of the booster engines during flight and the graphic showed the non-firing engines and locations as they failed.
I was also surprised that the Starship and booster held together during the multiple flips and gyrations of the combined vehicle. Very sturdy craft!
That's something I hadn't considered. Elon telling the staff to shake the booty of the craft to force a separation! SpaceX had the flight computers detonate at precisely 4 minutes and zero seconds after liftoff, so this lends credence to your theory about letting it continue after the gyrations happened, before causing the RUD.
“Anomalies”
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Oh, you mean the the rocket performing loops in the upper atmosphere?
THAT ‘anomaly’???
Fact: I never criticized the flight, or it’s failure.
This thread has generously exposed those here who,
- have reading comprehension deficits
- are emotionally reactive non-critical thinkers
- are closet hypocrites masquerading as Conservatives
- are musk accolytes
Agree.
As this thread has exposed, there are those who sit on the sidelines and cheer what they declare as "failure" because they don't ever really actually DO anything themselves.
Then there's people like Elon Musk, Henry Ford, Edison, Tesla, Einstein and more. Yes, they are in the same class and by the time he's done, Musk may be a cut above, just like Michael Jordan is to the NBA and Tom Brady is to the NFL.
(yeah, that'll stir up the crazies that last one... LOL)
I was NPO, not an issue.
You being one of those hyper-sensitive reactive types. Good grief...
that is because boca chica is their development/testing site.
you are so very wrong, a test flight is just that a test flight. spacex got a lot of data for this first flight. goverment affiliated you mean like boeing, lockeed-martin, ULA etc ummmm
you are so ignorant these are spacex..
Do you actually have anything to say about the launch? Or are you just sh*tposting about Laz at this point?
He’s funny. You’re just being a d*ck...
I’d be interested in seeing what kind of telemetry they were able to glean off this...
Just amazing what they were able to accomplish. Iterative design isn’t for everyone... but Elon and his crew are showing its efficacy for certain.
Were you aware that Elon just last week gave it a 50/50 chance of exploding on the pad? That the test was all about it getting in to the air at all?
You can be anti-Musk all you want... that’s your Right.
However, please note that being an idiot about it and lies will be corrected, mocked, and ridiculed...
I blew my nose...
I own Mars now.
“Our early space program was no different than this.”
Well, except for the part where everyone could watch it in real time and be arm-chair quarterbacks critical of every missed milestone.
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