#4522689 - 05/28/20 01:20 AM
Re: SpaceX Manned Launch
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Well, that didn’t turn out as I had envisioned. Three hours of driving there only to have it scrubbed. Then three hours back home.
If the weather looks favorable on Saturday, the wife and I will drive there to see if it goes.
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#4522694 - 05/28/20 01:38 AM
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Ive seen 4 maybe 5 shuttle launches. One from my plane. I’m going to make sure I see one ot SpaceX’s launches from my plane and get some pictures.
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#4522696 - 05/28/20 02:03 AM
Re: SpaceX Manned Launch
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Yes, it is totally worth it. It’s history baby. Yeah.
Think about this :
It was only 66 years from the Wright brothers first powered flight to the first landing on the moon. That is startling when you think of it. So much progress in just 66 years.
Then, it has been 48 years since the last lunar landing. That is a long pause. 48 years.
Think of those two numbers.
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#4522697 - 05/28/20 02:20 AM
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It was only 66 years from the Wright brothers first powered flight to the first landing on the moon. That is startling when you think of it. So much progress in just 66 years.
And all happened within my grandfathers', born in 1895, memory. Even my father, born 1924, could remember the first time he ever saw an airplane (as well as the first time he drank a Coke). Not many people can say that.
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#4522701 - 05/28/20 02:53 AM
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Christ
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. You young whippersnappers are spoiled. I watched the Apollo 11 moonwalk on a 13" black and white TV.
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#4522710 - 05/28/20 04:54 AM
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#4522712 - 05/28/20 05:40 AM
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That was on the capsule playlist. So was The Girl from Ipanema. The Star Spangled Banner.
They used The Girl from Ipanema as a relaxation device used when they detected any signs of stress.
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#4523109 - 05/30/20 04:36 PM
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On my way there with the wife. Making a day trip out of it. Having lunch right now as we look at the pre-launch briefings and news.
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#4523126 - 05/30/20 06:32 PM
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#4523129 - 05/30/20 06:49 PM
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This will be the first crewed American space "capsule" launch since Apollo-Soyuz launched on July 15, 1975.
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#4523130 - 05/30/20 06:59 PM
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#4523133 - 05/30/20 07:19 PM
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#4523138 - 05/30/20 07:29 PM
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The over the shoulder view of the instrument panel is awesome.
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#4523139 - 05/30/20 07:30 PM
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