SpaceX does it again!!! + Rolling out Starlink

yubba · 05-19-12, 05:58 PM

They are now talking 3 am well the rumble will wake me and I'll see it from the back deck.

eddie · 05-20-12, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by yubba

They are now talking 3 am well the rumble will wake me and I'll see it from the back deck.

Would have loved to be where you live, especially back in the late 60's!
I bet the Saturn 5 had a hell of a rumble,lol

yubba · 05-20-12, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by eddie

Would have loved to be where you live, especially back in the late 60's!
I bet the Saturn 5 had a hell of a rumble,lol

I missed that, was growing up on the farm in New York, I remember seeing it take off on tv and then I would run out side to see it, god I miss being as dumb as a bag of hammers.

Gerald · 05-22-12, 06:59 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-en...PublicRSS20-sa

Note: Update record,22 May 2012 Last updated at 07:58 GMT

BossMark · 05-22-12, 08:19 AM

Better to be safe than sorry

eddie · 05-22-12, 10:39 AM

I'm glad they got to launch! Hope the rest of the flight goes well too!

krashkart · 05-22-12, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by eddie

Would have loved to be where you live, especially back in the late 60's!
I bet the Saturn 5 had a hell of a rumble,lol

Oh how I wish I could have been around to see a Saturn V lift off.

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Originally Posted by yubba

god I miss being as dumb as a bag of hammers.

That's the very reason that God invented booze. Now we can all be as dumb as a bag of hammers.

eddie · 05-22-12, 03:09 PM

I agree, seeing any of the Apollo moon launches would have been awesome to say the least!

I've read the book "Genesis" the story of Apollo 8. They orbited the moon without landing. The author pointed out something about the power of the Saturn V, that just around 3 minutes after liftoff, the rocket had already passed 30 miles in altitude and was just over 6 miles down range already! This is what Astronaut Bill Anders said at the time, concerning liftoff-

The first seconds of flight were a total surprise to everybody because the Saturn V, which is a big tall rocket (kind of skinny) and we were like a bug on the end of a whip. It gets very massive near the bottom, with the centre of gravity near the bottom, so if you rotate it what little wiggle at the bottom translates to a big wiggle at the top.
Those giant F-1 engines were trying to keep the rocket going straight so it was being thrashed at the bottom and we were getting really thrashed at the top I mean violent sideways movement and massive noise that had nowhere near been simulated properly in our simulations. For the first ten seconds (it seemed more like 40) we could not communicate with each other. Had there been a need to abort detected on my instruments I could not have relayed that to Borman;

TLAM Strike · 05-22-12, 07:24 PM

The Dragon is on its way to the ISS.

Oh and its cargo bay has the ashes of the greatest engineer Starfleet ever produced.

eddie · 05-25-12, 11:58 AM

They made it to the station successfully!!

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...e-station?lite

Oberon · 05-25-12, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

The Dragon is on its way to the ISS.

Oh and its cargo bay has the ashes of the greatest engineer Starfleet ever produced.

05-22-12, 06:59 AM	#4
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eddie Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,023 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	I agree, seeing any of the Apollo moon launches would have been awesome to say the least! I've read the book "Genesis" the story of Apollo 8. They orbited the moon without landing. The author pointed out something about the power of the Saturn V, that just around 3 minutes after liftoff, the rocket had already passed 30 miles in altitude and was just over 6 miles down range already! This is what Astronaut Bill Anders said at the time, concerning liftoff- The first seconds of flight were a total surprise to everybody because the Saturn V, which is a big tall rocket (kind of skinny) and we were like a bug on the end of a whip. It gets very massive near the bottom, with the centre of gravity near the bottom, so if you rotate it what little wiggle at the bottom translates to a big wiggle at the top. Those giant F-1 engines were trying to keep the rocket going straight so it was being thrashed at the bottom and we were getting really thrashed at the top I mean violent sideways movement and massive noise that had nowhere near been simulated properly in our simulations. For the first ten seconds (it seemed more like 40) we could not communicate with each other. Had there been a need to abort detected on my instruments I could not have relayed that to Borman; __________________ Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I'm kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. Al Capone

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05-25-12, 11:58 AM	#10
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