That was one of the more remarkable things I’ve ever seen - dude in a Tesla jamming to Bowie in space. How is this real? Ha.
I think the recovery of all three cores was the goal. If the center core failed, but only did so moments before (or during) landing, that has a be a decent consolation prize. Lots of data would have been collected up to that point.
That dual landing of the boosters is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Geeking out as much as I have since the last shuttle launch.
This is my first time watching one of these and that dual landing was amazing. NASA’s rockets fell back into the ocean correct? Were they then unusable after?
Optimistically, that could mean they lost visual, but even if center core didn't make it, the fact that they got 2 out of 3 is remarkable and having center core right up until landing has to give a pretty good idea of system performance and flaws.
Nope they lost it. Sounds like it was a few seconds after it initiated its landing burn, hopefully they'll recover enough data to know what went wrong.
You would think that if the center core made it they would have announced that by now. Probably trying to figure out what went wrong before press release.
Yeah, since it was a test flight they didn't want to send an actual payload in case anything went wrong. They put Elon's car in there instead because why not?
North Korea: after a decade of innovation and experimentation, we have built a rocket capable of maybe possibly hitting the west coast of the hated Americans. America:
So, the car won't actually reach Mars. The graphic at 22:40ish in the livestream on their youtube shows the orbit. It is headed towards the sun, will slingshot around it and wind up orbiting the sun at roughly the same distance Mars orbits it. You want as little from earth as possible on Mars so that when we finally land we have clean data not contaminated by a Tesla Roadster smashing into the surface. Th http://spacenews.com/spacex-successfully-launches-falcon-heavy/ Edit: grabbed the graphic - I've been useless at work today