Author Topic: LIVE: SpaceX Falcon 9 (Flight 2) - COTS-1 - Launch Updates - December 8, 2010 (Read 546804 times)

TrueBlueWitt · « **Reply #540 on:** 12/08/2010 06:02 pm »

How long should it be on the "mains" before splashdown?

neilh · « **Reply #541 on:** 12/08/2010 06:02 pm »

I wonder what will happen to this vehicle after the post-flight analysis. Might it go to the Smithsonian or something, park it next to their SS1?

I thought all the COTS vehicles were being reused as DragonLabs?

spacetraveler · « **Reply #542 on:** 12/08/2010 06:02 pm »

How long should it be on the "mains" before splashdown?

Just a few minutes.

Orbiter · « **Reply #543 on:** 12/08/2010 06:03 pm »

Nice to see an America capsule splashdown in the Pacific ocean for the first time in 35 years.

Orbiter

boaorm · « **Reply #544 on:** 12/08/2010 06:03 pm »

9 minutes

ChrisC · « **Reply #545 on:** 12/08/2010 06:03 pm »

How long should it be on the "mains" before splashdown?

9 minutes per press kit.

mpthompson · « **Reply #546 on:** 12/08/2010 06:03 pm »

Did it splashdown safely? I'm not seeing anything on the twitter feed past the main chutes deploying.

TrueBlueWitt · « **Reply #547 on:** 12/08/2010 06:04 pm »

Quote from: TrueBlueWitt on 12/08/2010 06:02 pm
How long should it be on the "mains" before splashdown?
Just a few minutes.

9 minutes with no further updates is a bit worrying.. Hope it's down Safe!

corrodedNut · « **Reply #548 on:** 12/08/2010 06:04 pm »

SpaceXer: SPLASHDOWN!!!

stockman · « **Reply #549 on:** 12/08/2010 06:04 pm »

Splashdown!!

DaveJ576 · « **Reply #550 on:** 12/08/2010 06:04 pm »

The first American splashdown since the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 24 July 1975!

TrueBlueWitt · « **Reply #551 on:** 12/08/2010 06:05 pm »

SPLASHDOWN!!!

kwan3217 · « **Reply #552 on:** 12/08/2010 06:05 pm »

iamlucky13 · « **Reply #553 on:** 12/08/2010 06:05 pm »

SPLASHDOWN!!!

on the Twitter feed

I smell charred Pica-X and possible a bit of smoke from the NSF server. Sorry for hit F5 so much, Chris.

chawleysnow · « **Reply #554 on:** 12/08/2010 06:05 pm »

SpaceXer: SPLASHDOWN!!!

Space Pete · « **Reply #555 on:** 12/08/2010 06:05 pm »

It's official: We have SPLASHDOWN!

mr_magoo · « **Reply #556 on:** 12/08/2010 06:05 pm »

Now, that's something.

corrodedNut · « **Reply #557 on:** 12/08/2010 06:05 pm »

SpaceXer: "SpaceX is the first commercial company to reenter a spacecraft from space"

R.Simko · « **Reply #558 on:** 12/08/2010 06:05 pm »

YEHAA, this is incredable. The next thing I want to hear is, "Yes SpaceX, you can combine COTS flights 2 and 3.

ChefPat · « **Reply #559 on:** 12/08/2010 06:06 pm »

Twitter says SPLASH DOWN!!!