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#4522536 - 05/27/20 05:13 AM SpaceX Manned Launch  
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If everything goes according to plan, humans will be launched into space for the first time on a SpaceX rocket using a SpaceX capsule on May 27, 2020.

Launch info and stream should be able to be found here:
https://www.spacex.com/launches/

I wish them good luck, and safe flying!


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#4522538 - 05/27/20 05:42 AM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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The SPACEX Launch (3:30 pm CENTRAL) will STREAM LIVE here on NASA YouTube channel



I hope the SPACEX launch today will be exciting as Sunday, April 12th, 1981, 6:00 am CENTRAL when this

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#4522548 - 05/27/20 09:56 AM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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Been watching all of the lead up and will be waking the daughter at 1 am tomorrow morning fot the launch, weather permitting!


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#4522549 - 05/27/20 10:08 AM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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I will be there to see it.

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#4522569 - 05/27/20 01:04 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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Not looking hopeful for Weds. Tropical Depression off the Atlantic coast could complicate things


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#4522575 - 05/27/20 01:24 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Originally Posted by oldgrognard
I will be there to see it.

History baby. Yeah.


You better get some good pics OG!


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#4522609 - 05/27/20 05:34 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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On my way now. They are saying better than a 60% chance of launch. Skies are not looking good; hopefully better at the Cape.


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#4522613 - 05/27/20 05:43 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Ajay]  
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Originally Posted by Ajay
Originally Posted by oldgrognard
I will be there to see it.

History baby. Yeah.


You better get some good pics OG!


In this days of HD cameras cell phones, it should be HD video.

Originally Posted by oldgrognard
On my way now. They are saying better than a 60% chance of launch. Skies are not looking good; hopefully better at the Cape.


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Originally Posted by oldgrognard
On my way now. They are saying better than a 60% chance of launch. Skies are not looking good; hopefully better at the Cape.



Weather also has to be acceptable in a number of downrange abort areas. I'm not counting on this launch proceeding, hope I'm wrong.


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#4522623 - 05/27/20 06:28 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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Both SpaceX and NASA TV is streaming this in 720p.

720p for #%&*$# sake - is this 1991?

Where the hell is the 4K/HDR stream? This is SpaceX - not ESA after all. Rather pissed off at that - I want to watch it on my 4K TV in glorious resolution and we get something that was obsolete before Musk was born.

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Thanks for the heads up, Arthonon. Nice to see that my TV still works, and I'm going to keep it on the DirecTV NASA channel for the day.



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#4522630 - 05/27/20 07:25 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Originally Posted by oldgrognard
On my way now. They are saying better than a 60% chance of launch. Skies are not looking good; hopefully better at the Cape.


Apparently it is bumper to bumper at the Cape atm, hope you got yourself a nice quiet spot mate.

Edit - 30 minutes and counting, looking good!

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#4522635 - 05/27/20 08:18 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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Bummer. Oh well, Saturday it is.


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#4522637 - 05/27/20 08:23 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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Better safe than sorry.

Saturday 3:22 pm EST is next launch.

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What's a little weather when the rocket flies so fast it will go through the weather clouds faster than Superman not long enough to be in them clouds to be affected.


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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
What's a little weather when the rocket flies so fast it will go through the weather clouds faster than Superman not long enough to be in them clouds to be affected.
It's not the clouds per say, it is the rain and hail contained within the clouds that could do damage to the craft flying at the speeds it does.


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From SpaceX Twitter: "Standing down from launch today due to unfavorable weather in the flight path"

I'm reading that as bad weather downrange so it was probably in case of an inflight abort. You don't want to come down in a thunderstorm / high seas if you have an inflight abort a few hundred miles downrange.


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