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Am I going mad I only see two booster landing in the video?
On the live stream, the video feed cut out for the landing of the third (middle) booster.
Not only that, but apparently they recovered both fairings: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... So 5 out of 5...
I guess salt water isn't that much of an issue after all?
I was at Kennedy Space Center's Apollo/Saturn V viewing site for this launch and it was amazing. If you ever have the opportunity to be there for a Falcon Heavy launch, do yourself a favor and go. It's quite an experience and totally worth the money.
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I guess salt water isn't that much of an issue after all?
Yea, I wish we'd get a more detailed explanation of the accounting on this. For all I knew it was totally plausible that fairings would be destroyed by sea water, and it was also plausible there'd be no damage. The part that confuses me is why they would spend so much effort trying to catch them with Mr. Steven if they are in fact serviceable after a swim. Maybe the idea is that salt-water refurbishment-and-reuse sav…
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On the live stream, the video feed cut out for the landing of the third (middle) booster.
This almost always happens. It's really hard to keep a stable satellite connection, while a 150ft. booster is blasting the deck with the exhaust from 3 firing rocket engines.
I was at Kennedy Space Center's Apollo/Saturn V viewing site for this launch and it was amazing. If you ever have the opportunity to be there for a Falcon Heavy launch, do yourself a favor and go. It's quite an experience and totally worth the money.
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I guess salt water isn't that much of an issue after all?
I think that is only an issue with hard to clean equipment, like engines.
[1]: https://www.space.com/41614-spacex-mr-steven-catcher-boat-up...
Not only that, but apparently they recovered both fairings: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... So 5 out of 5...
I wonder what emergency procedure is in place in case the landing is off-course. Does it blow itself up?
As an addendum to that, if one accidentally lands in my back yard, can I keep it?
Can we finally stop having sci-fi films in which the whole outcome of the movie is solely determined on some heroic manual flying of a spaceship while simultaneously using manually aimed weapons like it's World War II?
The Apollo 13 astronauts would like to share a couple of anecdotes with you.