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Anyone else watching the launch?Don't the SpaceX spacesuits look like they were sourced from the Hunger Games movies?
Yeh, the countdown didn't match up -- what the network showed versus the NASA feed. Some sort of lag.But WOW! HOW COOL!! I do wish there'd been better coverage of the rocket booster landing on the platform after the launch. That's so cool!
But that blew my mind: that we remotely landed a rocket booster to land on drone ship VERTICALLY!
Late to this party (it's crazy enough as a music teacher in June ending a year, but in the spring of remote distance learning it's CRAAAAAAZY), but DANG was that an amazing display of technology!! I had one feed on you tube on a desktop computer in our living room, another feed on our TV via YouTube, and a third feed on my iPad but you're right, there still wasn't perfect cover of that rocket booster landing. But that blew my mind: that we remotely landed a rocket booster to land on drone ship VERTICALLY!In these every-devolving times of awful and crazy, Saturday afternoon (in CA) was a real great celebration of how great humanity can be: between the technology to the execution from all facets (the astronauts, the tech crew, support crew, NASA control room peeps, scientists, etc), it was a real nice afternoon for humanity to witness. I'm a bit traumatized after seeing the Challenger explode live in school (I was literally in my band class as a 4th grader, watching live with some classmates and the band teacher - all excited to see a teacher, not someone like an astronaut that felt like a huge plane of existence above us but a regular teacher, like my teachers, go to space only to watch it explode so soon, before even getting to space kind of broke me: even at that young age), so I don't geek out as much about space launches like some of my friends. But last weekend felt different: maybe just because it was a source of brightness in what's been a dark (and growing gloomier) 2020. VERY exciting day I think!!
That is the coolest thing about these new rockets. They land vertically. Very sci-fi. They've been doing this for years. I think the coolest one is where 2 landed at the same time. Other than being manned, this launch was the same thing SpaceX has been doing for years.My pet peeve is how the media keeps saying this is the first commercial manned launch. Kind of. NASA doesn't really build much of anything. They are a money funnel to companies that do. The Saturn V was built by Boeing, NA and Douglas among others. The Space Shuttle was built by Rockwell. The workhorse of a launch system we've had for all these years, Atlas, was built by Lockheed. It's program is jointly run by Lockheed and Boeing. SpaceX isn't even the company that took the biggest gamble. Since they developed this under a NASA contract. Lockheed built their own rocket using their own money. So pretty much all NASA launches have been commercial. Elon is just much better at marketing. Using Telsas to drive the astronauts to the pad was a nice touch. You can't buy that kind of product placement.
Well it is the commercial manned launch in the way the rockets and capsule were developed. I worked for Boeing . McDonnell Douglas , etc and all previous rockets and capsules were made because the US government put out a request for proposal (RFP) for them.
That is the coolest thing about these new rockets. They land vertically. Very sci-fi. They've been doing this for years. I think the coolest one is where 2 landed at the same time. Other than being manned, this launch was the same thing SpaceX has been doing for years.
My pet peeve is how the media keeps saying this is the first commercial manned launch. Kind of. NASA doesn't really build much of anything. They are a money funnel to companies that do. The Saturn V was built by Boeing, NA and Douglas among others. The Space Shuttle was built by Rockwell. The workhorse of a launch system we've had for all these years, Atlas, was built by Lockheed. It's program is jointly run by Lockheed and Boeing. SpaceX isn't even the company that took the biggest gamble. Since they developed this under a NASA contract. Lockheed built their own rocket using their own money. So pretty much all NASA launches have been commercial. Elon is just much better at marketing. Using Telsas to drive the astronauts to the pad was a nice touch. You can't buy that kind of product placement.