Liftoff today for the first US manned mission from US soil since 2011
https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-tel...-space-tv.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5...ature=emb_logo

Umm...Uh...Umm...Ah...Umm...I hope this particular speaker...Umm...Ah...does'nt...umm...have to say anything...Umm...particularly...Ah...important.

50 50 chance right now for the weather to co-operate

Will be on ABC/CNN/MSNBC and Fox

100% chance for whatever Trump says will be fact checked :D

Entering the capsule now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5...ature=emb_logo

They closed the hatch

Weather cell over Orlando is eroding so looks like things are a go :Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

Those new space suits and helmets. I thought if an Imperial Stormtrooper and Space Kerbals would have a baby, it would look like this. :D

T-45 minutes, go with propellant load

T-28 minutes.

Kinda hard to believe they will get this liftoff on day 1 without any kind of hold. Fingers crossed.

T-17 Launch abort

oh poo 5.100 scrub

Bad luck, play another day. Weather is weather, but the technology they say has worked fine.

An off topic input on this Space X adventure

If I had my own company like the Space X. I would give my engineers a task.

Develop a spacecraft that can be launch whatever weather it is and from any place on earth.

Furthermore develop some engine which makes it possible to use 2-3 types of fuel.
Like an engine who can:
1. Taking the spacecraft from earth to space
and
2. Transport in our solar system
and
3. Transport outside our solar system

Number 2 and 3 shall give the spacecraft a speed who shall be 10-15 times higher than it is today.

A Spaces shuttle had a speed around 17500 mph.

Which would mean this spacecraft would have a speed between 175,000 and 262,500 mph When in space.

Markus

I am afraid that your engineers would tell you no the problem will be fuel weight. It would be very inefficient to make one engine that can operate in an atmosphere and higher gravity environment and operate in space in a micro gravity environment.



Launching in any weather is not a problem.
Any rocket can be launched in any weather these days.

Whether that launch will be successful and whether the crew survives the launch is the the problem

Picky, picky, picky...





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