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This more exciting than waiting for my favorite ladies! Humans will be launched into space for the first time on a SpaceX rocket using a SpaceX capsule.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/
watch the launch live below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
Shit! Aborted cos of the weather while I was writing this. Maybe 3:20 pm estern saturday. What's a little weather the rocket flyies so fast thru the clouds faster than Superman?
If you were in it, would you take that chance?
I will be disappointed. Like on a plane waiting to take off and then send back to the gate. Flying is very safe.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwasd
Flying a plane is most likely be safe but a rocket that never been tested probably is not.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoinkBoink
They didn't test it before? All those SpaceX launches I been hearing about wasn't for this rocket?
dont count your chickens before they hatch...:oops:
this is one thing that could happen to a rocket/space craft when launching during a storm ... :lightning:
40 minutes! Hows the weather today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
Maybe storms today
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/ca...recast/2230906
4 minutes!!
It's so beautiful!
Ugh, so upset I missed the actual launch! Tuned in just in time to see Dragon orbiting, on its way to the space station! Very curious to see how this develops over the coming years, and if we can really commercialize space travel. Wouldn't that be something? :alien:
19 hours to ISS. How far is the ISS? SpaceX seem to do everything tsimpler and smoother than NASA. Look at the control room. A few rows of tables, a few tech at each table, and that's it. Not crowded and full of consoles like a NASA control room.
The name of the drone ship that the first stage separation reusable rocket booster lands on after separating in space from the SpaceX rocket is Of Course I Still Love You. There is another drone ship named Just Read The Instructions.
Yay !!!! Back to space
You can watch it here:Quote:
Originally Posted by secretrose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W36QKRS_t5k
Watch them live docking with the ISS at about 9:15 am today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
Docking is AI controlled but you can try it:
https://iss-sim.spacex.com/
If you miss the docking, click to 40 minutes. Then to see the astronauts going on the iSS, click to 3 hr 50 min. After docking, they sat in the capsule for over 3 hours while ISS check things and connect things. Not like the movies, you dock, you open the door, you step out and come and go freely like you are at a brothel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNklfC6jgBs
If I was up there I wouldn't want to come back to this planet. Coronavirus. Riots. Safer in space. How long can a human body handle 0 gravity?
I lookie at NASA live feed yesterday and they are still up there, for as long as 3-4 months. Safer there than here.
Returning this Sunday 2:42 pm Eastern
https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcre...ws-conference/
here's the NASA live feed again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
2 hours to landing at 2:48 pm Eastern. Use the same NASA live feed above to watch. looks fun https://www.spacex.com/static/images...ic_desktop.jpg
Why do you think elon was praying on the return?Quote:
Originally Posted by BoinkBoink
The dragon capsule had a high chance of burning up during reentry. Not necessarily during this reentry but a certain design of dragon creates an elevated chance of burn up during reentry. What is funny is I think the design is being changed to account for the design flaw. What is even funnier is if SpaceX is doing what I think they are doing it is going to create a REALLY big problem that no one is going to know why until dragon crashes into the ground.
I did not get to tell elon:
Don't pray because prayers are never answered, make wishes because wishes can be granted if enough currency of the djinn is available. I know what that currency is(has nothing to do with a person's soul) and no I am not telling.
I did ask how it's being protected on re-entry. On the shuttle you can see the heat shield tiles. On the dragon I don't see anything unless the whole skin is a new kind of shield that don't look so obvious as tiles.Quote:
Originally Posted by drqwerty
Can you please elaborate? What is the design flaw and what SpaceX is doing right now that may be a REALLY big problem causing a dragon to crash?Quote:
Originally Posted by drqwerty
SpaceX just put 4 folks in orbit...
https://www.spacex.com/launches/
Not bad for a few BILLION $$$ less than NASA probably spends on diversity training.
The lady astronaut is cute. Do they have sex in space?
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biog...megan-mcarthur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbiIHlU5Odc
After this DragonX docks at the ISS tomorrow, there will be 11 astronauts up there and only 9 beds. Someone will have to double up 2 per bed and that always leads to sex.