Set for a 1:30 launch.

Please post pictures

delayed until 3:05, winds

https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html

 

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I'm disappointed that NASA TV won't show it.

F'in sick! Can't believe the boosters came back and hit their marks together. Fascinating is an understatement.

Does anyone know if the main booster landed on the drone?

I have been told it has, but that is not official.


Screenshot taken from the live video feed....














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Puerto Rico 11 - 24 - 2013

I feel like a kid again.

Main booster crashed in the sea.

I've read a few "derisive" comments about "Starman" and the Roadster elsewhere online.

But, let's be honest about it. Elon has a lot of Kubrick in him. The whole launch today was quite something to see (if/once you understood what you where seeing). The live feed of Starman is/was a performance that will not be topped any time soon.



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rich boys and their toys--exploring the "way out" while they destroy whats within. 

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sneedeker

Your comment is so stupid that you should be ashamed of yourself.

butthurt? enjoying the distraction while public electric utilities get bought out by foreign entities? 

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Nope, not butt hurt at all. Your comment was stupid and so was your reply.

I will play though ..... What was SpaceX's involvement in this issue you are so concerned about? Educate me.

90 percent awesome, though I would like to hear a breakdown of the center core loss.

Musk is a PR genius too. He seems to enjoy being whimsical.

 

sorry but my history of space exploration course falls on T/R. 

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Whatever, go post about your nonsense in NSR.

"while they destroy whats within. "

I think Musk's Tesla electric cars, solar shingles and powerwalls are working to try and preserve what's within.

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malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

"The center core was only able to relight one of the three engines necessary to land, and so it hit the water at 300 miles per hour about 300 feet from the drone ship. As a result, two engines on the drone ship were taken out when it crashed, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a press call after the rocket launch. "[It] was enough to take out two thrusters and shower the deck with shrapnel," he said."

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malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

At the risk of sounding like an idiot (this is NPNR be nice), is the car no longer inside any form of vehicle? What is keeping it righted and on course?

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I'd like to see the video of that.

What is "right side up" in outer space without gravity to astronauts, much less to Starman who could care less??

Without an actual reference point or a massive body (earth) close enough to experience
gravity, there is no way of knowing "proper" orientation.
Space is intrinsically isotropic.

In the ISS, they have "reference points" as to instruments, consoles, etc
to know they are upside down, as they float and rotate but do they feel upside down?
The ISS could rotate through 360 degrees and they would rotate also,
but would they feel upside down? Not if everything rotated with them, unless
they felt some bit of gravity.

Which way is "right" ... the only "correct" way is to your eye, the viewer.








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I imagine an alien ship passing it and the captain going WTF was that and having to make a u-turn.

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"What is "right side up" in outer space without gravity to astronauts, much less to Starman who could care less??

Without an actual reference point or a massive body (earth) close enough to experience
gravity, there is no way of knowing "proper" orientation.
Space is intrinsically isotropic.

In the ISS, they have "reference points" as to instruments, consoles, etc
to know they are upside down, as they float and rotate but do they feel upside down?
The ISS could rotate through 360 degrees and they would rotate also,
but would they feel upside down? Not if everything rotated with them, unless
they felt some bit of gravity.

Which way is "right" ... the only "correct" way is to your eye, the viewer. "


Sunrise- i have often thought the same thing myself.. but then I thought "what about Saturn's Rings?" and "what about the orbits of the planets around the sun"

what is it that keeps these objects on a plane and not just orbiting in every which way, since there is no up/down in space?

^ physics

Somebody cue Tbird.

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You rang?

good florida today article Space X?

http://www.floridatoday.com/st...ter-starman/320915002/