Space Never Fails to Blow My Mind, 2nd Edition

"Two outta three ain't bad" -Meat Loaf

 

Wasn't the recovery of the center core the main objective of this launch?

 

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.

 

has there been word about if the Center Core landed?

 

Not yet.

 

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?

 

Real photos taken in space:

 

No, that is the whole point of what Spacex is doing. Cheaper through reuse and recycle.

 

That is some Iron Man looking shit

 

38:27

 

Don't know if accurate.



Probably not.

 

Look at the youtube video I posted above, you clearly hear it.

 

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.

 

Yeah, just saw that.

 

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.

 

last 40 seconds.

 

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.

 

That shit was incredible.

So the car in space was real? I’m contused.

 

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?

 

Yep, and headed for mars.

 

LIVE!

 

@flatearth tards

 

I mean, this pretty fucking cool.

 

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:

 

That is fucking awesome.

 

New wallpaper. Perfect shot.

 

Yup it looks flat



Idiots

 

Just saw this.

 

I showed my coworker the pics of the car in space. His response: “what a waste of money.”

 

How long till it reaches Mars? Over a year I assume

 

Same guy wants to build a giant fuck wall I bet.

 

6 months I think.

 

Wow. How long did curiosity take? Much longer right?

 

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

 

He’s from Peru

 

https://twitter.com/FalconMainCore?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

 

Wow, electric car batteries have come a long ways.

 

The release of starman.

 

expected daft punk to pop up in the back seat

 

How long until all of the paint and plastic are stripped clean