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that's was great!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Live today as if it may be your last and learn today as if you will live forever | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
I'm sure that the Space X team will call the flight a success. They were testing a lot of systems and all but one engine passed with flying colors. The next flight will have better engines I've heard. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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That was awesome!!! Yeah they had a hard landing but a lot went very good. Love the rapid prototyping they do “Forigive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.” -Scottish proverb | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
It landed with flying colors as well. | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon |
Yeah, there were a lot of colors in that ball of fire.  Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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That was a pretty awesome way to crash a rocket if you ask me. SpaceX makes me excited to see what's up their sleeve next. | |||
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| An investment in knowledge pays the best interest |
I've crashed many a moon lander that way and in my mind's eye that was exactly how it looked. | |||
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A Grateful American |
Space-X: "OK, ACME is off the vendor list. Anyone have the number to Morton-Thiokol?" "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Run Silent Run Deep  |
E-Bay engines...total garbage... SpaceX review: One star. Quick ship, package looked previously opened and returned! Performed poorly. Will be contacting PayPal to get my money back! _____________________________ Pledge allegiance or pack your bag! The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. - Margaret Thatcher Spread my work ethic, not my wealth | |||
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Pretty much everything tested was a success - except the header tank system. Looks like the two landing engines rely on smaller tanks to feed fuel and oxidizer to the engines and the system starved the engines on landing - did not work. They use the header tanks because the transition from horizontal to vertical means the main tanks are sloshing fuel and could not feed the engines on landing. SpaceX is looking at how to address the pressurization and feed of the headers for SN9. Everything else, surprisingly worked quite well. That thing on its belly has a slow terminal velocity. “Forigive your enemy, but remember the bastard’s name.” -Scottish proverb | |||
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| Not as lean, not as mean, Still a Marine  |
Will/Does SpaceX have a dedicated streaming feed like NASA used to? I love watching the launches, but the guy in the linked YouTube feeds is worse than my kid playing video games. I just want a clear announcer explaining the factual order of events "t-15 vents closed, preliminary checks complete" etc... I shall respect you until you open your mouth, from that point on, you must earn it yourself. | |||
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The feed from SpaceX started on their website 5 minutes before launch The kid doing cometary on YouTube forced me to turn the audio off and just watch the video | |||
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