Elon Musk's 44th birthday today. Crazy way to celebrate that, right: Launching a rocket into space and getting to re-use the rocket.
SpaceX – Launch Vehicle Failure
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#12>The seventh cargo resupply mission of Dragon to the ISS, also carrying the first International Docking Adapter in the trunk of Dragon, for use in Commercial Crew missions. Are they looking to relight and land today? They usually do for geo or ISS missions.
Yep, and Of Course I Still Love You is in position. https://igcdn-photos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.28...
That name... it has Very Little Gravitas Indeed.
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#13Wait, is the banner on SpaceX's YouTube channel really the terraforming of Mars? https://www.youtube.com/user/spacexchannel
It clearly is. Damn, that's cool! I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Elon Musk had already started thinking seriously about that phase of the colonization project.
When you walk into their office and go back towards the area where Elon's cubicle is, the same photo of the terraforming transition is blown up on the wall: https://www.flickr.com/photos/44124348109@N01/9848295393
Their company mugs also have a heat sensitive image of Mars that terraforms itself: http://shop.spacex.com/accessories-81/occupy-mars-heat-sensi...
Elon is ::definitely:: already thinking about the colonization phase of the project and has taken steps to highlight it to the company and the public.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, and Of Course I Still Love You is in position. https://igcdn-photos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t51.28...
What's usually the timeline and when could we expect the docking? Edit: Go it... Post-Launch Booster Recovery Okay, that's the routine stuff dealt with. I know we're all here to see what happens to the first stage! Following stage separation approximately 3 minutes into the launch, the first stage will manoeuvre and orient itself to conduct a post-mission landing test attempt on an autonomous drone ship named "Of Cou…
Since you edited with the first stage landing info, the expected landing is roughly T+9 min.
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#15Elon Musk's 44th birthday today. Crazy way to celebrate that, right: Launching a rocket into space and getting to re-use the rocket.
* possibly getting to re-use the rocket.
Good luck to everyone involved however; very exciting.
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#18Live broadcast here: http://livestream.com/spacex/events/4152712
Thanks, the livestream.com quality looks much better to me than Youtube's despite the latter offering 1080p.
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#19I love watching as many launches as I can it's great!