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TODAY SpaceX Historic Launch TODAY

Wed May 27, 2020 5:48 pm

Edit 9:58 p.m. Wednesday: Postponed until Saturday

Set to launch two NASA astronauts to space station.

All eyes are on the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as SpaceX prepares to a historic launch. A SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket is set to send two NASA astronauts into eorbit -- a first for a private company.


TODAY

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Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 5:57 pm

"Historic"

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 6:07 pm

you gotta problem?

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 6:12 pm

I hope they don't die!

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 6:21 pm

Mickey wrote:I hope they don't die!

Right? The number of Florida Covid deaths would be inflated.

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 6:21 pm

lol

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 8:06 pm

RIP in advance for these guys

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 8:48 pm

postponed due to bad weather. sure.

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 8:52 pm

Funny that this is considered 'historic' simply because our country has walked backwards for so long. Wasn't the first moon landing in 1969? Wasn't the first mannned space mission WAY before that? WTF is so historic or groundbreaking here? Flatscreens???

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 8:54 pm

We haven't done one of these in nine years! History!

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 8:57 pm

cutuphalfdead wrote:We haven't done one of these in nine years! History!

Woohoo! We've been paying the Russians for nine years because we couldn't get our shit together... Now we don't have to anymore!!! :hooray:

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 8:58 pm

First private company (piggybacking off of years of publicly-funded research) to send a manned mission into space (supported by government funding!)

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 8:59 pm

Mickey wrote:First private company (piggybacking off of years of publicly-funded research) to send a manned mission into space (supported by government funding!)

:haha:

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Wed May 27, 2020 8:59 pm

I mean I think the argument that NASA was *always* a slush-fund for the aerospace industry is a little too strong and totalizing but in the current public-private partnership iteration that's absolutely the case.

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Thu May 28, 2020 2:37 am

But will there be a space monkey as part of this

until we bring back astronaut chimpanzees

space exploration is dead to me

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Thu May 28, 2020 3:16 am

Simple Torture wrote:RIP in advance for these guys

They showed the test launch and how the capsule they are in can immediately break away in the event of an emergency. Seems at least way safer than the shuttle setup.

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Thu May 28, 2020 3:23 am

E.H. Ruddock wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:RIP in advance for these guys

They showed the test launch and how the capsule they are in can immediately break away in the event of an emergency. Seems at least way safer than the shuttle setup.

Oof. What a legend.

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Thu May 28, 2020 3:50 am

96583UP wrote:But will there be a space monkey as part of this

until we bring back astronaut chimpanzees

space exploration is dead to me


No. Two old astronauts

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch

Thu May 28, 2020 8:35 pm

LetMeSleep wrote:postponed due to bad weather. sure.


The forecast for both Saturday & Sunday is not promising either.

Re: SpaceX Historic Launch: Postponed until Saturday

Fri May 29, 2020 1:38 pm

semper fi aim high

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