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There was something doubly awesome about the two falcons landing at the same time right next to each other!
It was almost a brain stack-overflow for me. I made a weird, bleating laugh noise and tried to open my eyes wider than design spec. A sincerely surprising and amazing sight.
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Does anyone know how long a book (paper) would last in space?
Why wouldn't it last functionally forever? It's now in vacuum, and eventually will get to whatever temperature the sun can bake it to at that distance from the sun... I'm guessing it'll be there as long as the car is.
Love that SpaceX’s own team shoots, announces, and switches the live production in-house rather than hiring a production company. Also love seeing machinists side by side cheering with software engineers, standing by a mission control which is placed feet from where engines are assembled on the shop floor. Open company culture well-executed. Congratulations to all there!
This is why I love the live streams hosted by John Innsprucker. He doesn't look like a TV star, he looks like an engineer, a rocket scientist. He looks real. The other hosts are great, but if you told me they were hired actors or PR people I'd believe it.
Because they are young and good looking and good at public speaking?
USA Today reports the center stage landed "The core stage, meanwhile, burned slightly longer before separating from the upper stage, performed a flip maneuver and landed on SpaceX's Of Course I Still Love You drone ship." Not sure it's true. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/02/06/sp...
Elon over there landing rockets on drone ships, I'm over here finishing a new photo app. Elon over there going to Mars, I can't even get this dang app to build. Might be time to move.... http://www.spacex.com/careers
But even to be a dishwasher, which I wouldn't mind: >To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. I mean, I understand, but it still puts a damper on the "Team Humanity" vibe. :/ Same…
People outside the US want to feel part of the accomplishment, which is understandable as there are only a few nations that are likely to ever have the resources to do something like this. So the USA cheering feels exclusionary, naturally. I chalk it up to them being proud of the immense work they've done to get the US back into space properly again.
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Musk has said there is no reason they can't attach two more in the future.
That would be simply Kerbal.
No better way to learn basic orbital dynamics out there.
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Lost, or lost video feed?
There's been word from unofficial but reliable sources that it came in 'too hot' and died on impact.
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It’s like that at BlueOrigin too. I visited twice (they gave me a job offer but withdrew it after I got badmouthed by a reference, gah). They have an avionics software engineering room right next to where they assemble the engines.
> they gave me a job offer but withdrew it after I got badmouthed by a reference Why in the world would someone agree to be a reference and then bad mouth afterwards? Some folks...
Great job Elon and team SpaceX!