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  1. 03-01-2019, 21:43 #1
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    Default 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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MrPrena View Post
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    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
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    I like rockets.
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    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.
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    Hats off to Robert Goddard for figuring out how to fire a stupid big bullet up into the atmosphere.


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