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Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 5:18 pm
by Cody
I do enjoy a good lunch!

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 9:14 am
by IronDuke
Lunch in one hour fifteen minutes. Supply run to the ISS.

--IronDuke

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 9:22 am
by Talvieno
Oh, nice! Good find, Duke :thumbup:

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 9:41 am
by Cody
Excellent - lunch right before dinner!

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:19 am
by Talvieno
Here's the official link, if you don't mind a lack of chat. (Or prefer, as I do)

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:19 am
by IronDuke
Here is a better stream - it's SpaceX's official stream. :P Twelve minutes left.

Ninjavieno

--IronDuke

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:29 am
by Talvieno
I was thinking the same. :D Sounded like a lot of people talking and eating. They cut it out, though.

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:41 am
by Cody
<chortles> But I deleted my 'cafeteria' post when they cut it out - now it's back.

Those first stage landings are awesome! Go SpaceX!

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:48 am
by IronDuke
I've never watched a live rocket launch before... that was really exciting! :D Det watched it with me. I laughed with delight when they landed that first stage.

Is the second stage non-reusable?

--IronDuke

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:52 am
by Talvieno
Yeah, no way to re-use the second stage yet, as far as I know. That landing was beautiful though! I wish you could've watched when they were doing the first barge landings and nobody had landed a first stage yet. That was exciting!

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:56 am
by IronDuke
Talvieno wrote:
Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:52 am
Yeah, no way to re-use the second stage yet, as far as I know. That landing was beautiful though! I wish you could've watched when they were doing the first barge landings and nobody had landed a first stage yet. That was exciting!
I probably would've loved that. :mrgreen: I know from Space Engine and Elite Dangerous (mostly Space Engine though) exactly how hard it is to pull off a landing that perfectly.

...I was cracking up at this one guy on the other stream who was claiming in the chat that the whole thing was CGI. :lol: You can go and watch it yourself on-site, you know. :P

--IronDuke

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:32 pm
by Cody
IronDuke wrote:
Mon Aug 14, 2017 10:56 am
I probably would've loved that.
Here you go!

In a massive nod to Iain M. Banks, the two barges are named Of Course I Still Love You and Just Read the Instructions.

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 3:53 pm
by Cody
SpaceX lofted the X-37B today, and landed the first stage successfully again. An interesting little toy, the X-37B

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:01 pm
by Talvieno

Booster landing compilation video by SpaceX. :D

Re: Rocket Lunches

Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:18 pm
by Cody
NIce!