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#4522647 - 05/27/20 08:55 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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That makes sense. But in the Star Wars and Star Trek movies you see the Falcon and the Tie Fighters and the X-Wings and the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 to NCC-1701D fly through anything. They need to put Deflector Shields instead of some heat absorbing rubber tiles on that SpaceX craft. Deflector shields will let the ship survive anything.



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#4522662 - 05/27/20 10:37 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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#4522667 - 05/27/20 10:48 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Nixer]  
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#4522689 - 05/28/20 01:20 AM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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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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#4522690 - 05/28/20 01:22 AM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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Totally worth it. I did the same thing for a shuttle launch over a decade and a half ago.

#4522694 - 05/28/20 01:38 AM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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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 [Re: Arthonon]  
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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 Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Originally Posted by oldgrognard

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 Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: EAF331 MadDog]  
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Originally Posted by EAF331 MadDog
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 Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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They need to play this song during the launch on Saturday



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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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#4523089 - 05/30/20 02:36 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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#4523109 - 05/30/20 04:36 PM Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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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 Re: SpaceX Manned Launch [Re: Arthonon]  
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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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GO GO GO!!!!


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The over the shoulder view of the instrument panel is awesome.


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