Edit 9:58 p.m. Wednesday: Postponed until Saturday
Set to launch two NASA astronauts to space station.
All eyes are on the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as SpaceX prepares to a historic launch. A SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket is set to send two NASA astronauts into eorbit -- a first for a private company.
TODAY
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 5:57 pm
by Mickey
"Historic"
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 6:07 pm
by tree_
you gotta problem?
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 6:12 pm
by Mickey
I hope they don't die!
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 6:21 pm
by Chris_H_2
Mickey wrote:I hope they don't die!
Right? The number of Florida Covid deaths would be inflated.
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 6:21 pm
by McParadigm
lol
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 8:06 pm
by Simple Torture
RIP in advance for these guys
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 8:48 pm
by LetMeSleep
postponed due to bad weather. sure.
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 8:52 pm
by Iholdthepain
Funny that this is considered 'historic' simply because our country has walked backwards for so long. Wasn't the first moon landing in 1969? Wasn't the first mannned space mission WAY before that? WTF is so historic or groundbreaking here? Flatscreens???
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 8:54 pm
by Norah
We haven't done one of these in nine years! History!
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 8:57 pm
by Iholdthepain
cutuphalfdead wrote:We haven't done one of these in nine years! History!
Woohoo! We've been paying the Russians for nine years because we couldn't get our shit together... Now we don't have to anymore!!!
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 8:58 pm
by Mickey
First private company (piggybacking off of years of publicly-funded research) to send a manned mission into space (supported by government funding!)
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 8:59 pm
by Iholdthepain
Mickey wrote:First private company (piggybacking off of years of publicly-funded research) to send a manned mission into space (supported by government funding!)
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 8:59 pm
by Mickey
I mean I think the argument that NASA was *always* a slush-fund for the aerospace industry is a little too strong and totalizing but in the current public-private partnership iteration that's absolutely the case.
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 2:37 am
by 96583UP
But will there be a space monkey as part of this
until we bring back astronaut chimpanzees
space exploration is dead to me
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 3:16 am
by E.H. Ruddock
Simple Torture wrote:RIP in advance for these guys
They showed the test launch and how the capsule they are in can immediately break away in the event of an emergency. Seems at least way safer than the shuttle setup.
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 3:23 am
by Simple Torture
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:RIP in advance for these guys
They showed the test launch and how the capsule they are in can immediately break away in the event of an emergency. Seems at least way safer than the shuttle setup.
Oof. What a legend.
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 3:50 am
by knee tunes
96583UP wrote:But will there be a space monkey as part of this
until we bring back astronaut chimpanzees
space exploration is dead to me
No. Two old astronauts
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 8:35 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
LetMeSleep wrote:postponed due to bad weather. sure.
The forecast for both Saturday & Sunday is not promising either.
Re: SpaceX Historic Launch: Postponed until Saturday
