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#260
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kevin-rf
on 05 Aug, 2014 15:03
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Do we really have to wait 20 days to eat another lunch?
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#261
by
Rocket Science
on 05 Aug, 2014 15:15
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#262
by
chalz
on 05 Aug, 2014 15:16
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Mine just paused at T-20 and then I saw the the luanch update thread that it has lifted off leaving me really confused? 
I think they have luanches at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, not at CCAFS.
I was thinking maybe Baja California. Buenos Luanches SpaceX!
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#263
by
cro-magnon gramps
on 05 Aug, 2014 16:10
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Do we really have to wait 20 days to eat another lunch?
Not to worry!! Think of this as the Diet before Thanksgiving / Christmas Pig Out!!! by the manifest I had in the Spring, there "maybe" 10 lunches by this time next year!!! Makes me hungry just thinking about it!!
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#264
by
sghill
on 05 Aug, 2014 16:19
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First stage engine relit!
Heard that, too... Wonder what they were testing with this flight - just precision in getting to a return/splashdown area, or perhaps something else (for example, fuel reserves after a heavy launch)?
--Noel
I think they just try to practice first stage turnaround and retroburn with whatever fuel they have left, even if they don't have enough for a landing. They've done that before, if I recall.
Perhaps they turned it nose down and relit the main- just for the fun of it.
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#265
by
aero
on 05 Aug, 2014 16:38
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I feel a little sorry for the Pad gremlins, they tried so hard. They even pulled in their MacIver gremlin at the last minute but the darn Falcon 9 left the pad anyway.
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#266
by
Chris Bergin
on 05 Aug, 2014 16:42
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Commander Hadfield used William's article on his feed!
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#267
by
Sohl
on 05 Aug, 2014 16:45
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Commander Hadfield used William's article on his feed!
Cool! Great PR, that.
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#268
by
TripD
on 05 Aug, 2014 20:36
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Perhaps they turned it nose down and relit the main- just for the fun of it.
As a kid, did you ever attach fireworks to lawn darts?
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#269
by
sghill
on 05 Aug, 2014 20:44
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Perhaps they turned it nose down and relit the main- just for the fun of it.
As a kid, did you ever attach fireworks to lawn darts?
I attached fireworks to EVERYTHING! It was the 70's and 80's. No one cared back then, and you could buy copies of the "An*rch*st's Cookbook" at Waldenbooks as a guide for backyard fun without winding up on some automated NSA watch list for even spelling out the title.
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#270
by
veblen
on 05 Aug, 2014 23:59
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Man-made noctilucent clouds as seen from Orlando courtesy of SpaceWeather.com, Mike Bartils and SpaceX rocket:
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#271
by
rickl
on 06 Aug, 2014 00:04
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That is pretty.
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#272
by
deruch
on 06 Aug, 2014 00:19
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Man-made noctilucent clouds as seen from Orlando, courtesy of SpaceWeather.com, Mike Bartils and SpaceX rocket:
Attach, instead of embedding, pictures. That one is pretty, though.
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#273
by
veblen
on 06 Aug, 2014 00:33
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Man-made noctilucent clouds as seen from Orlando, courtesy of SpaceWeather.com, Mike Bartils and SpaceX rocket:
Attach, instead of embedding, pictures. That one is pretty, though.
Now attached, not embedded:)
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#274
by
rickl
on 06 Aug, 2014 01:34
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#275
by
Bubbinski
on 06 Aug, 2014 02:58
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Man, why must all the fun space stuff this week (Asiasat 8 and Rosetta orbit insertion) happen at zero dark thirty on work nights? Thankfully there's NSF.com & video replay.
Congrats to SpaceX and Asiasat!
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#276
by
Coastal Ron
on 06 Aug, 2014 03:08
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I found this link via Transterrestrial Musings. Apparently this morning's launch set some records, at least in recent years.
http://spaceksc.blogspot.com/2014/08/for-record-books.html
Three orbital launches in eight days is practically reminiscent of the 1960s launch tempo. Very cool.
Not only that, but from the article:
The just-under-22-days [SpaceX] turnaround is a modern-era (2000 - present) record for shortest turnaround of a CCAFS pad to launch again. The previous record holder? SpaceX, earlier this year — 34 days between SES-8 on December 3, 2013 and Thaicom 6 on January 6, 2014.
