Congrats SpaceX
 

Congrats Space X. Fascinating and exciting! The camera views during the ride were awesome and cinched it, the earth is flat! :D

Round or flat? https://youtu.be/TBv3_0j0y_4

Science is so 2016...

This is bit of great news in a sea of negativity these days. Well done all involved!

Cool thing was that they were able to return the booster and land it on a floating pad in the ocean. Landed perfectly.

That was awesome.

Thanks, Elon.

Are you sure....my coverage said loss of signal and then magically, viola, the booster is sitting upright on the ship! Personally, if they were gonna deprive me of seeing that, I would have rather watched Siegfried(or possibly Roy) get his head bitten off.

Just kidding, but with the cost of Vegas shows, that one might have been worth the money! Just kidding again.

In all seriousness, I'm glad Trump commanded them to launch..." safety be dammed, by God, I want a launch, I'm not wasting another trip down here".
Crap, a threefer

Seriously, that was amazing! Hopefully, it won't be politicized and can help bring the country together at least for the next 19 hours until nightfall or Space Station docking....fingers crossed.

PS...did anyone see the landing of the booster, or was it just my coverage? Seen em before and most cool

Auto land. I think it needs 3 auto pilots for that.

Nope, mine cut out as well just before touchdown. One of those inconvenient "loss if signal" things that make you go hmmmm.

Ha, ha. But yeah, for something this momentous you would have though they would have had a sister ship abeam to film( maybe they did) to be on station just in case.....no retro rockets and it slams thru the deck and everyone needs to be rescued, etc. In all honesty, I will be totally surprised if there is not footage of the event.....but then the tin foil hats come will out:)

If you liked that, lookup the video of Falcon Heavy boosters landing simultaneously together at Kennedy Space Center.

This? ;)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nprrvbfd3o...%20PM.gif?dl=1

It is very hard to maintain a satellite uplink on a moving platform like that.... this video explains it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH75bVG7HBo

A Great day for our country. That rocket left the launch pad so slowly and gracefully I thought it wasn’t going to make it! Awesome day

It’s a drone ship. Nobody to rescue if something goes wrong.

Gotcha, yea remember reading it on the screen crawler ...drone ship....failed to put 2 + 2 together. New math protege.

Thanks for the clarification.

hey man, I hear what you are saying and I agree with all of your positivity. What I can’t let slide without being a ****ty troll is giving one cent of this credit to trump. Somehow he waves a hand and all the professionals just nod their heads and say ok? Let’s give credit where credit is due. The men and women that put in a crap ton of sweat, blood, and tears to make something real we can all come together on as a nation.

all I ask is please please to not give any street cred to some standard scummy politician (they all are on both sides)
ok sorry

Despite the claim of "all seriousness" I read that part to be sarcasm or tongue in cheek. I agree with you otherwise. All the politicians do in these cases is come up with idiotic ideas (Space Force? Seriously!?) and write the checks.

That’s not what the NASA Administrator had to say right after the launch. Without the president’s support, none of this would be possible. Troll on, but try not to go full retard.

Pretty sure praising the boss publicly and stoking his ego is in the job description for any position in this administration.

lol, you’re right, it was trump that made it all happen

by chance have you ever participated in a military large force exercise?

its def the 4 star that makes it all happen, not the 0-2s and 0-3s as blue 1-4

And don’t forget the Chemtrails! You noticed they had them turned on even before they allegedly “launched”.

Seriously, congrats to SpaceX, Elon, NASA, the astronauts, and all the engineers and fabrication persons that worked on it!

The NASA administrator is a political appointee from the president. Of course he has to say good things about the president’s support. If he says one bad thing, he’s gone.

I will give Trump credit that this is one area that he has not screwed with. He has let NASA be and it has been successful. No matter how much he despises California...

It was all filmed on a movie set in Hawthorne CA.

Swing and a miss by most everyone. It was my lame attempt at humor, what people like "The View" will say Monday. "Trump had a total disregard for safety and wanted to stoke his ego and commanded the launch putting people's lives at risk due to storms in the area."

If I have to splain it , never mind. It was funnier after a few IPA's

Cheers

idk. Space force. Maybe it’s nice to not be reactionary every time and just get out in front.

Remember one time making a “clever” remark to a crusty Delta captain about Elon Musk and his PT Barnum act. Didn’t know the guy was a Tesla owner. Oops.

Gotta say, Musk appears to be an amazing guy. Who wakes up one morning and says “I think I’ll build rockets. For Space.”?

Then does it. Awesome.

Just want to add my congratulations as well to SpaceX, Elon, NASA and the test pilots Doug and Bob. It's been nearly 20 years since the last test pilots launched in a new space ship. And they named the capsule Endeavor after the shuttle that carried both Bob and Doug on their first launch. The whole family was watching and I gotta say I was a bit emotional at launch. It's a day I'll never forget.

P.S. The drone ship landings always cut out on the live feed during touchdown. The recordings are usually available in a day or two.

P.P.S. Dragon Docking Simulator

Docking with space station at 10:29am eastern. NASA Channel

Just under a 100 meters from ISS but will stop at 20 meters for a few minutes before docking.

Ladies and gentlemen, we are still on an active taxiway, please remain seated until the CA turns off the seat belt sign!

but what if the wind moves them?

Either way, the Tesla spaceship is very cool

There are convenient space buoys for $25.00 a night.

They outsourced the premium ULH flying, but the pilots kept their jobs. Do you think we could start flying the AF/KLM/VA/LATAM/KAL/AMX/WJA equipment? Hijack over.

Musk did a great job with this. He now needs to get back to work at Tesla. Just went to look at a possible purchase and the quality was terrible. Yugo would have been embarrassed to let the Tesla’s I saw out of the factory. Really disappointed because I wanted one badly. If they can’t correct body defects you can see from 30 feet away I had to wonder what items you can’t see look like?

The drivetrain is a decade ahead of the competition, but fit and finish is a decade behind. One interaction with the right foot potentiometer and you will be hooked. The instant torque is crack cocaine. My wife loves her Model S, but the body panels and trim aren't nearly as good as the Honda parked next to it. If you buy an X or S, the first thing you do is get it ceramic coated because the paint is that bad. If you are buying a Model 3, it may not be worth the expense relative to the price tag.

Sounds like Musk is going after the Corvette market. “Yeah, it’s built like garbage, but the power!” His cars are already so expensive though that BMW et al. can’t come along and make a superior product for a 40% premium because no one would buy it.

The danger Tesla faces is that companies like BMW are catching up in their electric drivetrain know how faster than Tesla is figuring out car building know how. If Tesla doesn’t figure out the fit and finish production details before competitors field comparable electric drivetrains, Musk’s car company will have real trouble.