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Launching humans into space again from America - Space X

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  • A few of my favorite shots from my time spent at Kennedy. It's impossible to express how amazing it is to experience a launch up close. Most of these are STS-115.  

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    It's what I used to do... Getting two vehicles moving that fast to be together at the same place at essentially 0.1 fps difference in velocity is a true orbital ballet.

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    Who wore it better?  

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For reference: it took them 23 attempts with Falcon 9 before they landed a core with some of the same problems today, crushed landing leg etc.

Their rate of developing new tech and rapidly improving it is remarkable. Just incredible stuff.

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1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Just put her down on the frame wherever 

Yeah about that...

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Guess a tank finally popped lol

Damn big fireball, here's another angle complete with live reacs from a youtuber lol

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5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

So mark an X at “vehicle Safing” I guess 

They updated the ticker lmao

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Is that a header tank intact on the right end of the debris?

It seemed like they stayed on three engines during the landing for a longer time than I expected, didn’t really spend any time on two engines. Went more or less from three to one.

Whole thing should have been filmed in black and white. Fits that grain silo, '50s look of the Big Space Rocket. 

4 minutes ago, Restinmybones said:

Whole thing should have been filmed in black and white. Fits that grain silo, '50s look of the Big Space Dong 

 

3 hours ago, Restinmybones said:

Whole thing should have been filmed in black and white. Fits that grain silo, '50s look of the Big Space Rocket. 

Chesley Bonestell holla

...and then it exploded.

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there's a good Scott Manley breakdown of the asplosion

Notable notes from the video:

  • the rocket didn't decelerate on one engine, it maintained a pretty constant 15mph on the single-engine descent before landing
  • the landing legs failed to fully deploy, the above vid has a nice clip where you can clearly see three of the legs just dangling, not having locked in place
  • the ship visibly bounced on landing, which is what probably damaged the pressure tanks leading to the RUSH
  • the RUSH (rapid unplanned second hop) appears to be mainly from the extremely pressurized tanks losing integrity and venting all at once. The fireball was just a side-effect

Overall, still an incredibly successful mission to demonstrate every stage of the flight profile, including recovering from translating too far due to the 3 engine ignition to start the swing maneuver before landing

Edited by Captainant

High-speed cameras = extremely clear slow-motion video:

 

 

  • 1 year later...

SpaceX crew dragon flight to the ISS from the Cape, pad 39A. Launch in T-minus 2 hours ish

 

  • 5 months later...

t-mimus 3hr 45mins to Crew 5's flight to the ISS for a 6 month stay in orbit

 

1 hour ago, Captainant said:

Crew 5's flight to the ISS for a 6 month stay in orbit

I read that as ISIS and saw the close out crew all in black….

looks like 11am CST 

9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Are they having problems closing the hatch.

Yep. FOD discovered on the hatch seal, so they are going to reopen it, check the hatch lining and then close it back out.

Have 12 minutes to get it done.

One or two astronauts asleep.

Edited by atomheartbevo

8 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

So is this when we kick the Russians off our space station?

We just recently sent an astronaut up via a roscosmos launch, and there's actually an active Cosmonaut on Crew 5. If anything, the space partnership has strengthened, which is strange.

12 minutes ago, Captainant said:

We just recently sent an astronaut up via a roscosmos launch, and there's actually an active Cosmonaut on Crew 5. If anything, the space partnership has strengthened, which is strange.

The Russians announced that they were withdrawing from the ISS.  But I have no idea what the timetable for that is.

Let’s do this…

Fuck yeah!!

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