Spacex launch tonight

Tonight at 12:49am mountain time (about 4 hours from now) spacex will be launching the first unmanned test of their new crew vehicle. Will be flying on a standard Falcon 9 rocket. Capsule will be docking with the ISS early sunday (around 1:30am mountain time), staying up there for 5 days, and then splashing down. The first stage rocket will attempt a landing on spacex drone ship.

spacex video feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZL0tbOZYhE

nasa video feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

actual coverage from both feeds should start around midnight.

**Paging Jer **

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Come on, man. He's probably pleasuring himself in an EV somewhere.

This is the link for the ISS position over the earth. It used to be called Space Station "Freedom".

https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/tracking_map.cfm

I like rockets.

If this flight is mostly successful (I'm sure they will run into some issues), there will be an in-flight abort test in another month or so, where they will intentionally abort the first stage after launch, and test the capsule firing it's escape rockets and then landing. That one should be really cool to watch.

Hats off to Robert Goddard for figuring out how to fire a stupid big bullet up into the atmosphere.

I'm going to try to watch it. Not sure I'll make it till 12:49 though. Thanks for the heads up.

The Chinese invented rockets 10,000 years ago. Dr.Goddard invented the first liquid fueled rocket. SpaceX rockets are fueled by kerosene. The Saturn V rocket was liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

Not quite, but close.

The first stage of a Saturn V was RP-1 & LOX (Kerosene)

The second & third stage was LH2 + LOX.

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The Chinese invented rockets 10,000 years ago. Dr.Goddard invented the first liquid fueled rocket. SpaceX rockets are fueled by kerosene. The Saturn V rocket was liquid hydrogen and oxygen.

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I might be the only one here who didn't go to rocket school, but it's still cool firing really big bullets into the atmosphere.

Built a rocket named Reckless Disregard.

Flew to 25k on an M840 6grain CTI (75mm motor case)

Pro38.com if you want to get your nerd on.

It ain't a rocket science!
If Jim Parson was playing Sheldon Cooler, he would've solved the Euler's in his head in 2 microseconds.
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For a minute I thought you meant Jack Parsons, a real rocket engineer who founded JPL & Aerojet.

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For a minute I thought you meant Jack Parsons, a real rocket engineer who founded JPL & Aerojet.

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Yikes! CAL TECH! [panic]

[Edited] Between SpaceX & ULA (United Launch Alliance; Headquartered in Denver) are pushing hard this year to get man-rated capsules back in operation in the United States. It's long overdue and I wish them both great success.

Neato !

I can barely figure out how to turn the TV on to WATCH a rocket launch... I have zero aptitude for math.

Rainman….."yeah.."

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Rainman….."yeah.."

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"Ripley is an excellent driver, yeah."

Some bamboo, some sulfur, charcoal & dried piss...light the fuse~

lol

This is the first launch of what will be the first US-made, man-rated space vehicle since the days of the (bloated, stupid) shuttle.

If SpaceX passes all of the tests to man-rate Dragon*, this will be a really big deal for US spaceflight.


*They will.

Coming up on the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 landing the Eagle on the moon.
It is cycling back to exciting times!

Maybe I should have started this dicussion in this thread.

O2

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Wasn't that a Star Trek episode? With a big lizard?

Yeth.