SpaceX does it again!!! + Rolling out Starlink

http://www.wacotrib.com/blogs/conten...shakes_up.html

[Onkel Neal]

By diagem
November 22, 2008 11:42 PM
well shucks. I live over her in Teague on the Due hiway and my barn rattled so hard it knocked a couple bales of hay down from the top loft and scared my cows and they went hitailing thru the fence and out on the due hiway and pulled two big old pecan trees down and blocled the darn hiway. I don’t reckon it’s anyone’s fault though.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[August]

At least it's not the Astronaut Farmer (also a Texan iirc)

[Buddahaid]

Successful launch of Falcon 9 today!

http://www.spacex.com/multimedia/videos.php?id=51

[VonHesse]

Really hope this "redirection" from public funding to private companies works. If it does, it could mean a whole new era in space travel and exploration - and save the US taxpayer a bundle in the meantime.

[Gerald]

Saturday's attempt was aborted just as the rocket was about to lift off

The launch of the American SpaceX company's re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed by at least three days.

The company was forced to abort the flight just as its Falcon rocket was about to leave the pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Early data indicated unusual pressure readings in one of the nine engine combustion chambers under the vehicle.

The company says it hopes to try again on Tuesday or Wednesday.

"We had a nominal countdown, right until about T-minus point-five-seconds," explained SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell."The engine controller noted high chamber pressure in engine five; software did what it was supposed to do - aborted engine five, and then we went through the remaining engine shut-down," she told reporters.

"We need to lift off with all nine [engines], which is why we aborted. You can lose up to two engines and still make your mission, just not at lift-off."

The next earliest launch opportunity is 03:44 EDT (07:44 GMT; 08:44 BST) on Tuesday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18118136

Note: 19 May 2012 Last updated at 10:58 GMT

[yubba]

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

[eddie]

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]

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]

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

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

[BossMark]

Better to be safe than sorry

[eddie]

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

[krashkart]

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.

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]

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]

The Dragon is on its way to the ISS.

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