Author Topic: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread (Read 282936 times)

Comga · « **Reply #60 on:** 03/03/2014 06:29 am »

Quote from: Hauerg on 03/03/2014 05:18 am

It cannot hover and they want to recover it as intact as possible.

I think chalz was either
1 Serious in which case you could
a Roll your eyes or
b Laugh or he was
2 Not serious in which case you could
a Laugh or
b Roll your eyes
Whacha wanna do?

Mader Levap · « **Reply #61 on:** 03/03/2014 09:29 am »

Quote from: Hauerg on 03/03/2014 05:18 am

It cannot hover and they want to recover it as intact as possible.

He said it was his fantasy, not something serious.

meadows.st · « **Reply #62 on:** 03/03/2014 04:28 pm »

Quote from: chalz on 03/03/2014 05:11 am

Quote from: Barrie on 03/02/2014 06:17 pm
Quote from: rcoppola on 03/02/2014 06:11 pm
It would be epic if they can keep that lens clear through both return burns, leg deployment and slow ocean surface approach. Or, launch the Hexacopter, with one hell of a zoom lens from one of the recovery ships. HA! Epic I say!

It would be great to watch the stage actually treading water...

My ideal fantasy test has it slow to a hover a few hundred meters above the ocean. Pause for the cheering to die down and check all the data is gathered. Then in one move flip the legs back to stowed position, cut the engine and plunge into the ocean.

In that vein, my fantasy is a 0/0 (horiz/vert) velocity at about 30m followed by a Triple Lindy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_School for the win.

(sorry, this is the only ridiculous/famous dive I can think of)

Joffan · « **Reply #63 on:** 03/04/2014 04:29 pm »

Clearly some infrastructure will be required for the Triple Lindy...

kevin-rf · « **Reply #64 on:** 03/04/2014 05:15 pm »

Quote from: Joffan on 03/04/2014 04:29 pm

Clearly some infrastructure will be required for the Triple Lindy...

Would explain all the delays

meadows.st · « **Reply #65 on:** 03/05/2014 05:08 pm »

Reading some of the other posts (other than some very intriguing stuff in L2), it seems I am not alone in feeling like an electric motor with no load... waiting for Mar 16th. Why am I so interested in this? I have no connection to SpaceX (at least not yet) but I feel like I want them to (successfully) launch a rocket every week ( I voted for 9 in 2014 FWIW ). I wasn't (and am still not) this way with Shuttle (although I was fascinated and excited) or any other government launch although I guess I felt somewhat similar for the MER and MSL rovers and certainly for Scaled when they were shooting for the X-Prize. I am not usually a amazing people about much. Can anyone enlighten me about why I am such a amazing people for SpaceX? What am I going to do until the 16th?

rpapo · « **Reply #66 on:** 03/05/2014 05:21 pm »

Quote from: meadows.st on 03/05/2014 05:08 pm

Reading some of the other posts (other than some very intriguing stuff in L2), it seems I am not alone in feeling like an electric motor with no load... waiting for Mar 16th. Why am I so interested in this? I have no connection to SpaceX (at least not yet) but I feel like I want them to (successfully) launch a rocket every week ( I voted for 9 in 2014 FWIW ). I wasn't (and am still not) this way with Shuttle (although I was fascinated and excited) or any other government launch although I guess I felt somewhat similar for the MER and MSL rovers and certainly for Scaled when they were shooting for the X-Prize. I am not usually a amazing people about much. Can anyone enlighten me about why I am such a amazing people for SpaceX? What am I going to do until the 16th?

Twiddle your thumbs? Check for unread posts on this site every 15 minutes when you have access to the web? Google on "SpaceX News" over and over again?

Elvis in Space · « **Reply #67 on:** 03/05/2014 05:45 pm »

Quote from: rpapo on 03/05/2014 05:21 pm

Quote from: meadows.st on 03/05/2014 05:08 pm
Reading some of the other posts (other than some very intriguing stuff in L2), it seems I am not alone in feeling like an electric motor with no load... waiting for Mar 16th. Why am I so interested in this? I have no connection to SpaceX (at least not yet) but I feel like I want them to (successfully) launch a rocket every week ( I voted for 9 in 2014 FWIW ). I wasn't (and am still not) this way with Shuttle (although I was fascinated and excited) or any other government launch although I guess I felt somewhat similar for the MER and MSL rovers and certainly for Scaled when they were shooting for the X-Prize. I am not usually a amazing people about much. Can anyone enlighten me about why I am such a amazing people for SpaceX? What am I going to do until the 16th?
Twiddle your thumbs? Check for unread posts on this site every 15 minutes when you have access to the web? Google on "SpaceX News" over and over again?

Yeah, that's pretty much the routine. It's like looking in the refrigerator all the time when you're hungry like something is suddenly going to appear in there. Spacex keeps things relatively quiet and it has you waiting for a surprise all the time. Maybe legs are the only thing? Maybe there's a hopped up Dragon waiting to be unveiled? Maybe the Vulcans have landed to take Elon home? I don't know. The future I've waited for all my life might suddenly actually appear and I don't want to miss it.

Falcon H · « **Reply #68 on:** 03/05/2014 07:12 pm »

Quote from: meadows.st on 03/05/2014 05:08 pm

Can anyone enlighten me about why I am such a amazing people for SpaceX?

Well, I became a SpaceX amazing people about the time of the Dragon demo launch, I was following (and still do) other companies, but I think there is something special about SpaceX.

They do what they say they're going to do, and they never give up.

Think about what they've done. Back in 2004 when They were having problems with Falcon 1, if you told someone that in ten years the same company would be flying Grasshopper, working on F9R-Dev1, doing commercial launches with Falcon-9, and resupplying the ISS with Dragon, they would have called you crazy.

I for one can't wait to see what SpaceX does in the next ten years

meadows.st · « **Reply #69 on:** 03/05/2014 08:49 pm »

Quote from: rpapo on 03/05/2014 05:21 pm

Quote from: meadows.st on 03/05/2014 05:08 pm
Reading some of the other posts (other than some very intriguing stuff in L2), it seems I am not alone in feeling like an electric motor with no load... waiting for Mar 16th.
snip
What am I going to do until the 16th?
Twiddle your thumbs? Check for unread posts on this site every 15 minutes when you have access to the web? Google on "SpaceX News" over and over again?

Sadly, yes, this is exactly what I have been doing... startlingly similar to an addiction.

Quote from: Elvis in Space on 03/05/2014 05:45 pm

Yeah, that's pretty much the routine. It's like looking in the refrigerator all the time when you're hungry like something is suddenly going to appear in there. Spacex keeps things relatively quiet and it has you waiting for a surprise all the time. Maybe legs are the only thing? Maybe there's a hopped up Dragon waiting to be unveiled? Maybe the Vulcans have landed to take Elon home? I don't know. The future I've waited for all my life might suddenly actually appear and I don't want to miss it.

In the sense of "misery loves company" I am happy to know that there are a few like-minded "addicts". Your "The future I've waited for..." statement is right on the mark.

CraigLieb · « **Reply #70 on:** 03/06/2014 02:53 pm »

Quote from: meadows.st on 03/05/2014 05:08 pm

Reading some of the other posts (other than some very intriguing stuff in L2), it seems I am not alone in feeling like an electric motor with no load... waiting for Mar 16th. Why am I so interested in this? I have no connection to SpaceX (at least not yet) but I feel like I want them to (successfully) launch a rocket every week ( I voted for 9 in 2014 FWIW ). I wasn't (and am still not) this way with Shuttle (although I was fascinated and excited) or any other government launch although I guess I felt somewhat similar for the MER and MSL rovers and certainly for Scaled when they were shooting for the X-Prize. I am not usually a amazing people about much. Can anyone enlighten me about why I am such a amazing people for SpaceX? What am I going to do until the 16th?

I think it is called hope. Hope for humanity, hope for the future. SpaceX seems to hold the promise of so much hope for some of us that have been in the Aerospace community and watched a man put his boot on the moon so many years ago. With the culture focused so closely on a 3 inch wide screen so much of the time, and incredible progress is so many areas over the decades, I for one, thought we could take commercial flights to the moon by now and would have been on Mars for some time exploring that planet.

Space is hard, and we are beginning to crack that nut. That is why I am excited about and support SpaceX and the others making the attempt. Can you imagine watching the first few flights of an aircraft ever flown?
Or seeing a car for the first time?

My grandfather used a wagon and mule to move around when he was a young man (around 1912). He lived to see a man walk on the moon and watch a space shuttle launch.

What will we see?

cro-magnon gramps · « **Reply #71 on:** 03/06/2014 03:09 pm »

CraigLieb, welcome to the band, I have been trying to drum the history of transportation and progress into this site for 5+ years now... as well into my kids and their friends... the narrow focus that some people have on today and the certainty that things Can't change, is depressing... while I will agree that fusion may always be 30 years away, for practical energy generation, there are uses which can be made of what we know now... and that goes for many of the technologies that we are developing... yesterday I read about a new magnetic material... but it is magnetic only in a certain state, and turns off when that changes... as the person said, we know of some uses, in electronics now, but we EXPECT that there will be many more that we don't foresee, in the future... that is the wonder of this time in history... we can't foresee the many wonderful things that will be born out of the research that is being done around the world... my grand-dad was born in 1892 and died early in 1961... he was involved in radio and electronics development, and he would have loved to have seen what we are seeing...

to stay on topic... has anyone seen a SpaceX mission patch for this launch... with it being near St Patrick's Day, I am expecting a bit more Green

Elvis in Space · « **Reply #72 on:** 03/06/2014 03:15 pm »

Quote from: CraigLieb on 03/06/2014 02:53 pm

... good stuff...

What will we see?

Hopefully the things you covered that we've been waiting to see and haven't seen yet.

I'm a fairly cynical 51 year old married with children regular guy and it's quite a leap for me to buy into anything completely. Never the less I think there may be a moment coming, and I hope it arrives, it may be the first FH launch, it might be the first manned Spacex flight, when I'm going to be completely sold. I doubt I will be alone and if Elon wants to start his own religion I'll be leading the prayers.

This is not just a milk run to ISS. I hope it's a step to something bigger.

ClayJar · « **Reply #73 on:** 03/06/2014 08:17 pm »

Quote from: meadows.st on 03/05/2014 08:49 pm

Sadly, yes, this is exactly what I have been doing... startlingly similar to an addiction.

It's not an addiction if I can stop whenever I want to, right? The fact I can think of no reason at all to ever want to is immaterial.

(All I have to do is type 6, 5, or 4 in my browser and the SpaceX L2, Missions, and Discussion forum links, respectively, pop up as the first autocomplete links. That's perfectly normal, right?)

I can hardly wait to "spring forward" two weeks in a row, albeit in different contexts.

Avron · « **Reply #74 on:** 03/06/2014 11:57 pm »

Looking forward to spring... anyone need ice.. Im done with Ice.. hopefully that will all change with this launch of spx3 ...

bring it on

beancounter · « **Reply #75 on:** 03/07/2014 01:52 am »

Quote from: Avron on 03/06/2014 11:57 pm

Looking forward to spring... anyone need ice.. Im done with Ice.. hopefully that will all change with this launch of spx3 ...

bring it on

Looking forward to some cooler weather myself. Just turned Autumn and it's only going to be 38 degrees Celsius today.

docmordrid · « **Reply #76 on:** 03/07/2014 01:58 am »

Quote from: Avron on 03/06/2014 11:57 pm

Looking forward to spring... anyone need ice.. Im done with Ice.. hopefully that will all change with this launch of spx3 ...

bring it on

Me too. SE Michigan is starting to look like friggin' Greenland after 85" of snow (and counting, 60+ days straight) and the Great Lakes being 92% frozen over.

StealerofSuns · « **Reply #77 on:** 03/07/2014 02:00 am »

SpaceX, why must you launch at such an insanely early hour?

Maybe it's the legs, but I don't know if I've been this excited/apprehensive of any launch previous.

Comga · « **Reply #78 on:** 03/07/2014 02:07 am »

But I am going to be in Florida on March 15/16.
Not only will it be warm, but I just might hop in the car and drive to the Cape.
(Sleep is overrated.)
Is there any better place to watch the launch than Jetty Park?
How much of the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge is poem to the public at night and during a launch?

parham55 · « **Reply #79 on:** 03/07/2014 02:20 am »

Quote from: Comga on 03/07/2014 02:07 am

But I am going to be in Florida on March 15/16.
Not only will it be warm, but I just might hop in the car and drive to the Cape.
(Sleep is overrated.)
Is there any better place to watch the launch than Jetty Park?
How much of the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge is poem to the public at night and during a launch?

Let me know if you make it. I'll be there!