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 Post subject: TODAY SpaceX Historic Launch TODAY
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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 Post subject: Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
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I hope they don't die!

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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I hope they don't die!

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


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 Post subject: Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
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RIP in advance for these guys

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 Post subject: Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
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postponed due to bad weather. sure.


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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???


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


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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:


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 Post subject: Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
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First private company (piggybacking off of years of publicly-funded research) to send a manned mission into space (supported by government funding!)

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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

:haha:


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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.

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its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.


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But will there be a space monkey as part of this

until we bring back astronaut chimpanzees

space exploration is dead to me

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 Post subject: Re: SpaceX Historic Launch
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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.

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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.

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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

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postponed due to bad weather. sure.


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


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 Post subject: Re: SpaceX Historic Launch: Postponed until Saturday
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