Live! Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket, maiden flight

[editor]

That double landing was possibly the coolest things I've ever seen

I found myself loudly applauding at home. On my own!

 

[wiskey]

That landing was synchronised beauty.

The 4 & 9 year olds were captivated

 

[T & P]

That was fucking incredible. It actually brought a tear to my eye

 

[spitfire]

Didn't see that, broke up.

Love the DON't PANIC on the satnav.

Reckon he has a towel in the boot?

 

[TruXta]

Some conspiracy theorist is bashing the head off his bishop right now after they lost track of the core.

 

[cybershot]

Awesome, hope the last unit landed on the ship drone too.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

That was ridiculously cool

 

[NoXion]

Very good. I nearly applauded at one point.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I found myself loudly applauding at home. On my own!

Same here. I haven't applauded a screen like that since last June's exit poll came in.

 

[2hats]

so the car is in orbit?

Currently in orbit around Earth. Stage restart in just under 10 minutes.

 

[joustmaster]

centre core loss proves flat earth.

 

[NoXion]

Currently in orbit around Earth.

One of them said it was going to orbit the Sun. Did they mis-speak?

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

so the car is in orbit?

there's another burn needed I think in a few hours, but if that works then yes, the car is in orbit around the sun.

 

[bimble]

So these pictures at the end were real live footage ?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Currently in orbit around Earth.

I thought it was supposed to go to Mars?

Obviously being driven by a Manchester cabbie, if it can't even find the right planet

 

[2hats]

One of them said it was going to orbit the Sun. Did they mis-speak?

Patience. Parking orbit (ho ho).

 

[Spymaster]

Well you don't get to see that every day!

 

[2hats]

 

[nuffsaid]

there's another burn needed I think in a few hours, but if that works then yes, the car is in orbit around the sun.

Which is why they sent a convertible...

 

[SpookyFrank]

Too perfect to be real. I dread to think how much maths goes into this sort of thing. Must be measurable in human lifetimes.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Too perfect to be real. I dread to think how much maths goes into this sort of thing. Must be measurable in human lifetimes.

hey, it's just rocket science...

 

[T & P]

Cool as fucking fuck. That brought the biggest cheers in my living room. Amazing sight.

 

[cybershot]

Too perfect to be real. I dread to think how much maths goes into this sort of thing. Must be measurable in human lifetimes.

It's took a long time to get to perfect

 

[spitfire]

It's took a long time to get to perfect

Love the way they manage to work out what went wrong from piles of burning scrap. People are clever.

 

[2hats]

Burn to HEO orbit coming up in the next minute or two, setting it up for the TMI burn to heliocentric orbit in a little under 4 hours.

 

[nuffsaid]

Why aren't NASA doing this...I really don't understand how a guy that invented Paypal can get folks together to work out how to get booster rockets to land themselves while NASA, who landed men on the Moon, don't have a reusable launch vehicle anymore...

 

[ska invita]

Dare i ask, whats the point in all this?

 

[Spymaster]

Why aren't NASA doing this...I really don't understand how a guy that invented Paypal can get folks together to work out how to get booster rockets to land themselves while NASA, who landed men on the Moon, don't have a reusable launch vehicle anymore...

SpaceX have more money/funding than NASA. After this it's likely that NASA will use them to put stuff into space.

NASA is losing the race to build a better rocket

 

[SpookyFrank]

Why aren't NASA doing this...I really don't understand how a guy that invented Paypal can get folks together to work out how to get booster rockets to land themselves while NASA, who landed men on the Moon, don't have a reusable launch vehicle anymore...

US government too busy paying for an assortment of wars.

 

[2hats]