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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #25 on: February 06, 2018, 08:49:28 pm »
Successful separation!
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #26 on: February 06, 2018, 08:53:28 pm »
Boosters doing their re-entry burn in prep for landing burns.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #27 on: February 06, 2018, 08:54:41 pm »
That was fantastic to see here.  Nice clear day.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #28 on: February 06, 2018, 08:54:55 pm »
I loves me some gubbment monies.  Can I has some more:


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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #29 on: February 06, 2018, 08:56:14 pm »
Both boosters have made successful landings. I was an amazing sight. I will post a link for those who didn't get to see it live as soon as I can.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #30 on: February 06, 2018, 09:00:06 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on February 06, 2018, 08:54:41 pm
That was fantastic to see here.  Nice clear day.
I'm jealous. I watched all the Gemini and Apollo and Shuttle launches on TV but always wanted to see one in person.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #31 on: February 06, 2018, 09:00:27 pm »
I was pretty impressed they landed the boosters!
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #32 on: February 06, 2018, 09:03:07 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on February 06, 2018, 08:54:55 pm
I loves me some gubbment monies.  Can I has some more:


Saint Elon pictured in front of his X-Phallus

LOL For an enginerd like me it's easy to look past that nonsense and just see the technological achievement.

Plus, it's cool for my almost 6 year old to see and then come inside and draw a picture of what his idea is of a shuttle that can do what he just saw.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #33 on: February 06, 2018, 09:05:02 pm »
Quote from: Neverdul on February 06, 2018, 09:00:06 pm
I'm jealous. I watched all the Gemini and Apollo and Shuttle launches on TV but always wanted to see one in person.

We're about 50 miles straight west from the launch pad.  I've never gone to KSC for a launch though.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #34 on: February 06, 2018, 09:10:28 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on February 06, 2018, 09:03:07 pm
LOL For an enginerd like me it's easy to look past that nonsense and just see the technological achievement.

Plus, it's cool for my almost 6 year old to see and then come inside and draw a picture of what his idea is of a shuttle that can do what he just saw.

Good for you.  I'm out $50 bucks.  Grumble grumble.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #35 on: February 06, 2018, 09:15:24 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on February 06, 2018, 09:10:28 pm
Good for you.  I'm out $50 bucks.  Grumble grumble.

Well that's what you get when you gamble with your own money.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #36 on: February 06, 2018, 09:20:09 pm »
Skip to about the 30-minute mark for the lift off.

Go to about the 36-minute mark to watch the booster re-entry and landing.
 
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #37 on: February 06, 2018, 09:23:45 pm »
Quote from: InHeavenThereIsNoBeer on February 06, 2018, 09:15:24 pm
Well that's what you get when you gamble with your own money.

I do need to get into politics so that never happens to me again!
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #38 on: February 06, 2018, 09:28:05 pm »
I looked it up on Wikipedia...

The Falcon Heavy has almost half of the payload limit to low earth orbit as the old Saturn V rockets, for about a tenth of the cost (in equivalent time-adjusted dollars).
And (so far) they both have 100% reliability.

That's very encouraging.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #39 on: February 06, 2018, 09:59:55 pm »
Did center booster land safely on the drone ship?  Cool launch and neat to see the car with rocketman inside...lol.  Wonder if Musk can write it off as a business expense...lol.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #40 on: February 06, 2018, 10:06:44 pm »
Quote from: mrpotatohead on February 06, 2018, 09:59:55 pm
Did center booster land safely on the drone ship?  Cool launch and neat to see the car with rocketman inside...lol.  Wonder if Musk can write it off as a business expense...lol.

If you are going to send junk to be space junk It would have been better if he would have put the EAGLE 5 in there.

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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #41 on: February 06, 2018, 11:33:12 pm »
Seeing those two boosters landing upright side-by-side was kind of awesome...
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #42 on: February 07, 2018, 02:11:19 am »

Today SpaceX achieved a spectacular and historic success.
Seven years ago, the Augustine commission said that NASA's Moon program had to be cancelled, because the development of the necessary heavy lift booster would take 12 years and 36 billion dollars.
SpaceX has now done that, on its own dime, in half the time and a twentieth of the cost.
And not only that, but the launch vehicle is three quarters reusable.
This is a revolution. The naysayers have been completely refuted.
The Moon is now within reach. Mars is now within reach.
The moment is at hand to open the space frontier. America should seize the time.
And to the SpaceX team, let us offer this salute:
You did it. They said it couldn't be done, but you did it. You made it look easy, but we know it wasn't.
You took your knocks. You took your failures. But you fought it through.
Fortune favors the brave. Fortune favors the smart. But most of all, Fortune favors the tough.
Talk about the right stuff. You guys are great.
Hats off!

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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #43 on: February 07, 2018, 01:10:13 pm »
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #44 on: February 07, 2018, 01:47:08 pm »
Quote from: mrpotatohead on February 06, 2018, 09:59:55 pm
Did center booster land safely on the drone ship? 

I've been trying to find the answer to this but there's no information AFAICT.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #45 on: February 07, 2018, 01:53:08 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on February 07, 2018, 01:47:08 pm
I've been trying to find the answer to this but there's no information AFAICT.

The stories I read last night suggested it did not.  The video just show a blast of vapor when it was supposed to be landing, so there was no dramatic show as there was with the boosters at KSC.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #46 on: February 07, 2018, 02:00:58 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on February 07, 2018, 01:47:08 pm
I've been trying to find the answer to this but there's no information AFAICT.

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The middle booster of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket failed to land on its drone ship
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16980954/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-middle-core-failed-landing

SpaceX Landed the Falcon Heavy's Two Boosters, But Its Core Clipped Its Drone Ship at 300 MPH
https://gizmodo.com/spacex-recovered-the-falcon-heavys-two-boosters-but-it-1822788896

Elon Musk confirms the middle booster of Falcon Heavy EXPLODED after it missed its drone ship and hit the ocean at 300mph during SpaceX's historic launch of the world's most powerful rocket http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5361587/SpaceX-confirms-DID-lose-Falcon-Heavy-rocket.html#ixzz56Qm9NG7R
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #47 on: February 07, 2018, 03:21:23 pm »
Love  him or  hate him,you have to admit that Musk knows how to sell a product. The photos this morning of a red Tesla roadster in outer space being driven by a dummy inside an astronaut suit with the planet Earth in the background has to be the coolest damn photo I have ever seen in my life.
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #48 on: February 07, 2018, 03:25:13 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on February 07, 2018, 03:21:23 pm
Love  him or  hate him,you have to admit that Musk knows how to sell a product. The photos this morning of a red Tesla roadster in outer space being driven by a dummy inside an astronaut suit with the planet Earth in the background has to be the coolest damn photo I have ever seen in my life.


Wait! What!? Are you saying that the guy driving the Roadster is a dummy?
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Re: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Test Flight Live Thread 02/06/18 at 1:30 pm EST
« Reply #49 on: February 07, 2018, 03:27:41 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on February 07, 2018, 03:21:23 pm
Love  him or  hate him,you have to admit that Musk knows how to sell a product. The photos this morning of a red Tesla roadster in outer space being driven by a dummy inside an astronaut suit with the planet Earth in the background has to be the coolest damn photo I have ever seen in my life.

Ya gotta know NASA would never have done a stunt like that.  Straight out of Heavy Metal.
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