Space X Crew Dragon Demo 2 Live Thread

Space X YouTube Channel ^ | 5/30/2020

[cll]

Crew ingress in progress.

Second time is the charm.

The hell with bad news. Onward, forward, skyward and spaceward!

Godspeed Bob and Dough!

And all ya'alls, take the red pill.

[Chgogal]

Fantastic! Now that is awesome flying!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Watched it with my daughter, who is 12.

[Jane Long]

We’re watching with our little grand babies! Oldest is four. They are getting such a kick out of this. They’re drawing rockets, now.

[Pollard]

Well they should have tethered that thing to something

[Dacula]

Quick job of editing video. Love it.

[Jamestown1630]

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html#public

[milagro]

I remember that very well!
Remembering celebrating it in my high school sophomore class!
(Yeah, I AM OLD:)!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I am utterly GOBSMACKED! AMAZING!

U
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[milagro]

I remember that very well!
Remembering celebrating it in my high school sophomore class!
(Yeah, I AM OLD:)!

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Does the 2and stage land too?

[Moonman62]

They just saved millions by landing that falcon 9

That was Musk’s idea

...

I wouldn’t be surprised if they retire that stage.

[Chgogal]

It’s great being back in space. I didn’t know how much I missed it until now.

[Fishtalk]

;)

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

AMAZING!

[Texas Eagle]

How embarrassing for Neil Cavuto and Faux News. Can't even play a simple sound bite.

We can put a man on the moon.....

[servantboy777]

Trump / Elon Musk has restored American leadership in space. Obozo tried his best to strip America of the pride of American ingenuity.

[polymuser]

Ya got me by around a decade. Good to see excitement about space travel again!

[Political Junkie Too]

What was the water we saw spraying on one of the views, about a minute and a half before launch?

From Wikipedia Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39:

Sound Suppression Water System

A Sound Suppression Water System (SSWS) was added to protect the Space Shuttle and its payload from effects of the intense sound wave pressure generated by its engines. An elevated water tank on a 290-foot (88 m) tower near each pad stored 300,000 U.S. gallons (1,100,000 liters) of water, which was released onto the mobile launcher platform just before engine ignition. The water muffled the intense sound waves produced by the engines. Due to heating of the water, a large quantity of steam and water vapor was produced during launch.

-PJ

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Bravo! Outstanding, we’re going back into space. Thank you Mr. President.