Author Topic: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread (Read 282922 times)

Lar · « **Reply #260 on:** 04/18/2014 08:30 pm »

Congrats SpaceX and all involved!

StarryKnight · « **Reply #261 on:** 04/18/2014 08:37 pm »

Looks like SpaceX is having a very Good Friday.

Congratulations.

Avron · « **Reply #262 on:** 04/18/2014 08:41 pm »

Nice work Spacex, congrats - now to find out where the first stage is.. hope we don't have another MH370

butters · « **Reply #263 on:** 04/18/2014 08:49 pm »

Quote from: Avron on 04/18/2014 08:41 pm

Nice work Spacex, congrats - now to find out where the first stage is.. hope we don't have another MH370

Oh, no, the last thing we need is several weeks of Wolf Blitzer pointing at huge maps and telling us they still can't find it!!

Mongo62 · « **Reply #264 on:** 04/18/2014 08:50 pm »

Elon Musk @elonmusk · 1m

Last known state for rocket boost stage is 360 m/s, Mach 1.1, 8.5 km altitude and roll rate close to zero (v important!)

spectre9 · « **Reply #265 on:** 04/18/2014 08:50 pm »

A launch!! Woot. How awesome. A good one too even with the weather concerns.

Go SpaceX!!!!

Prober · « **Reply #266 on:** 04/18/2014 08:52 pm »

Quote from: Tea Party Space Czar on 04/18/2014 07:25 pm

GO FALCON! GO DRAGON!

Here we go - Good Luck and Godspeed!

too much Helium, this isn't John Glenn launching.

Nilof · « **Reply #267 on:** 04/18/2014 08:59 pm »

Quote from: Mongo62 on 04/18/2014 08:50 pm

Elon Musk @elonmusk · 1m

Last known state for rocket boost stage is 360 m/s, Mach 1.1, 8.5 km altitude and roll rate close to zero (v important!)

This was also posted on the stream page. Sounds promising.

Prober · « **Reply #268 on:** 04/18/2014 09:29 pm »

Need to take todays launch song and overlay it on the video...

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=34006.msg1184623#msg1184623

Any takers?

Ben the Space Brit · « **Reply #269 on:** 04/18/2014 09:30 pm »

The presser feed is horrible! It keeps on cutting to a promo video for ICESat!

NovaSilisko · « **Reply #270 on:** 04/18/2014 09:40 pm »

NASA plane couldn't fly due to icing conditions, only SpaceX plane could see the descent. This, combined with the rough seas and possible destruction of the stage as a result of that, seems to mean it's unlikely we'll see the video

Barrie · « **Reply #271 on:** 04/18/2014 09:46 pm »

Quote from: Ben the Space Brit on 04/18/2014 09:30 pm

The presser feed is horrible! It keeps on cutting to a promo video for ICESat!

I think it has been randomly cutting to the education channel for a few seconds at a time. It was doing the same thing during the launch. Very antagonizing

NovaSilisko · « **Reply #272 on:** 04/18/2014 09:52 pm »

I never experienced any of the cuts to the other channel that I see people talking about. Was this on the regular stream or UStream? I was on the latter.

Ben the Space Brit · « **Reply #273 on:** 04/18/2014 09:55 pm »

Regular stream

Mongo62 · « **Reply #274 on:** 04/18/2014 09:58 pm »

I was on Ustream, there were no cuts away at all.

Barrie · « **Reply #275 on:** 04/18/2014 10:02 pm »

Regular stream

Rocket Science · « **Reply #276 on:** 04/18/2014 10:06 pm »

During the presser there was a question from Irene about possible Easter surprises on Dragon for ISS... Perhaps an "astrobunny"..?

ey · « **Reply #277 on:** 04/18/2014 11:32 pm »

I kind of like the dirt in the photo. Makes it feel like a gritty sci-fi spaceship that's spent so much time in service that nobody bothers to clean it off because it'll just be taking off again.

rickl · « **Reply #278 on:** 04/18/2014 11:51 pm »

Congratulations once more, SpaceX!

I watched it while at work. I was logged in here for a bit during the countdown, but had to switch browsers in order to view the SpaceX feed. So I wasn't reading the update thread during the launch. I knew that the video might lag behind real time, and I didn't want any "spoilers".

The SpaceX feed had an extreme closeup view of the launch, so I didn't notice the "dirty water" column at first. It looked worse when I watched the NASA TV replay, which was from a distance.

I don't know what it is, but I'm always more nervous watching SpaceX launches than any others. That sort of brings back memories of watching launches in the "golden age" of the 60s and 70s.

sublimemarsupial · « **Reply #279 on:** 04/19/2014 12:05 am »

Even more reason to party - sounds like the landing was successful, and they got the stage down into the ocean in one piece!

"Data upload from tracking plane shows landing in Atlantic was good! Several boats enroute through heavy seas."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/457307742495993856