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Post by novisnick on May 30, 2020 13:52:45 GMT -5
30:00 to blast off!
I love that America is going to space again. It’s about time I think. Happy? Sad? Don’t care?
Whats your thoughts?
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Post by 405x5 on May 30, 2020 14:59:48 GMT -5
30:00 to blast off! I love that America is going to space again. It’s about time I think. Happy? Sad? Don’t care? Whats your thoughts? Live I love it.....saw Almost every Mercury, Gemini and Apollo launch 🚀! Wild that we’ll be fishing our boys out of the ocean again. Bill |
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Post by ttocs on May 30, 2020 15:07:32 GMT -5
My respiration went way up at launch! And I was ecstatic once they were safely past the second stage!!
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Post by 405x5 on May 30, 2020 15:14:01 GMT -5
Oh well let’s go to the videotape. I was on my COVID-19 sanity walk and missed.
When the first attempt was scrubbed I was with NASA to the last moment.....oh well
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Post by mgbpuff on May 30, 2020 15:50:29 GMT -5
While I’m glad we are a player in space again, we have back stepped from where we were before. Falcon 9 does not compare to Saturn 5. Crew Dragon does not compare to the Shuttle. We went to the moon some 51 years ago. Space travel should have been common by now. What happened? All the Nazi scientists have died off!
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Post by Boomzilla on May 30, 2020 16:27:24 GMT -5
About time! Bravo, Space-X!
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Post by novisnick on May 30, 2020 16:54:53 GMT -5
I have a very strong urge for something to drink, Found it! 😁  imghost |
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Post by 405x5 on May 30, 2020 17:09:27 GMT -5
I have a very strong urge for something to drink, Found it! 😁 imghostI got it LOL.....but not sure who will ( you have to be fossilized) |
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Post by gus4emo on May 30, 2020 17:32:17 GMT -5
Godspeed!! The important thing is to know that the US did not lose any edge after canceling the shuttle, God bless America!
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2020 19:39:08 GMT -5
I watched the launch here (delayed 3 hrs due to time zone). Great accomplishment and made me feel so proud and so relaxed (  ) in comparison to the rest of the TV news showing the thugs and punks ravaging many cities across our nation (  ). Sad, so very sad. |
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Post by MusicHead on May 30, 2020 19:59:14 GMT -5
It is great that US is back to space. It never gets old for me to see a launch.
As long as propulsion is based on chemical rockets, though, we (humanity, not just US) ain't going nowhere beyond our own backyard.
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Post by garbulky on May 30, 2020 21:42:25 GMT -5
While I’m glad we are a player in space again, we have back stepped from where we were before. Falcon 9 does not compare to Saturn 5. Crew Dragon does not compare to the Shuttle. We went to the moon some 51 years ago. Space travel should have been common by now. What happened? All the Nazi scientists have died off! You're right. But SpaceX has made some massive improvements. These launches to the spaace station are - significantly cheaper. This right here makes the biggest difference. If one is spending 1.2 billion dollars per launch for the saturn V launch and 400 mill for the space shuttle, how accessible is space, really? - Reusable both the capsule and the first stage. Granted the space shuttle was also reusable but at a significantly higher rehaul cost. - DONE BY A PRIVATE COMPANY. If SpaceX hadn't bought the cost down, there's no way they could realistically survive doing this. But I hear you, it's not as impressively large or powerful as those bigger vehicles. What you are looking towards is really the SpaceX Starship. This is (hopefully) - bigger than the saturn V - fully reusable - a fraction of the cost. - has an interior volume equal to the entire space station for its second stage. - faster to be built. They are already building rough prototypes of the second stage at a rate of about one per month. Now there's a looooong way to go. Currently their development schedule is super fast, but they have encountered numerous issues. But SpaceX has so far acheived the main goals they have set out to do so I don't see why they can't acheive this. |
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Post by 405x5 on May 30, 2020 21:43:01 GMT -5
It is great that US is back to space. It never gets old for me to see a launch. As long as propulsion is based on chemical rockets, though, we (humanity, not just US) ain't going nowhere beyond our own backyard. Mars is in our backyard and we will get there eventually. Worthwhile science indeed. |
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Post by klinemj on May 30, 2020 21:55:42 GMT -5
That was really awesome to watch. I was really lucky to have my son home because being a Purdue Aero/Astro engineer, he knew a lot about the technology and the mission. So every time we asked a question, he had the answer.
But, man...that was cool. It took me back to the first moon landing and floating in the lake I lived on as a kid and looking up at the moon wondering if we could actually see them up there!
Mark
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Post by MusicHead on May 30, 2020 22:23:29 GMT -5
It is great that US is back to space. It never gets old for me to see a launch. As long as propulsion is based on chemical rockets, though, we (humanity, not just US) ain't going nowhere beyond our own backyard. Mars is in our backyard and we will get there eventually. Worthwhile science indeed. Oh, yes, do not take me wrong, events like this are all necessary and very significant steps. Getting to Mars is achievable with the current technology, but think of the travel time and how... "cumbersome" it is. What we need (over time) is a series of breakthroughs comparable to what took us from crossing the oceans on sailboats in weeks to crossing them on jetliners in a few hours. |
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Post by adaboy on May 31, 2020 0:03:37 GMT -5
I watched the Launch in 8k, ATMOS 24.4.8 surround.
Too bad it was only broadcasting in 2ch stereo. Lol jk
It was awesome the whole family watched and since my daughter was over a friend's house we asked that they tune is as well! Kids loved it.
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Post by 405x5 on May 31, 2020 6:54:13 GMT -5
I watched the Launch in 8k, ATMOS 24.4.8 surround. Too bad it was only broadcasting in 2ch stereo. Lol jk It was awesome the whole family watched and since my daughter was over a friend's house we asked that they tune is as well! Kids loved it. They can dock faster than my HDMI can shake hands |
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Post by ttocs on May 31, 2020 9:42:06 GMT -5
It's got that friggin' Smaht Pahk.
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Post by ttocs on May 31, 2020 10:00:34 GMT -5
Looking out the window from the ISS.  C'mon, we were all thinkin' it! |
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Post by mfeust on Jun 1, 2020 8:41:44 GMT -5
Seriously, Who gives a schitt just another waste of money that could be used better.
Mark
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) in comparison to the rest of the TV news showing the thugs and punks ravaging many cities across our nation (
). Sad, so very sad. 
