Space and Science BS Thread

SpaceX has a Falcon Heavy night launch scheduled for later this month from The Cape

 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...ll=34.70166026259515,-120.59738597895876&z=10

The 'official' onbase spot is the rod and gun club but there's a gravel area right off of New Mexico that's better. Biggest advantage of onbase is you're up on the ridge so you have better LOS even if you're a bit further away.

 

That's an improvement from when I was in school back in the '60s. Most people at my school were just spaced out.

I like this video best of all the Saturn launch videos. Crank the sound up, skip to 2:00 into the vid. I worked with a guy who grew up in Titusville, and saw all the Saturn V launches. He said they still shook the ground 12 miles away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cOhZy7dhTo

 

I used to live 50 miles from where they test the space shuttle and other solid rocket motors. They mount the motors horizontally and basically blast the side of a mountain so the sound mostly goes up. It was not uncommon the hear/feel when the tests were run. I am going to see one of those launched someday.

 

I lived in JAX during the height of the shuttle launches. Even up there you could hear the roar of the rockets and see the glow.

I'll never forget the second John Glenn launch in 1998, the highways came to a complete stop with people watching the sky. It was crazy.

 

Who knows what else is up there?

https://apple.news/Ao8xJYxhBQjmv52R1e3CFmA

 

Oh, that's cool. It's like a large metallic meteoroid struck the moon at some point and changed its center of mass.

 

Big mass on the dark side of the moon huh?!

 

WATCH LIVE: RADARSAT CONSTELLATION MISSION

SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, June 12 for launch of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The primary launch window opens at 7:17 a.m. PDT, or 14:17 UTC, and closes at 7:30 a.m. PDT, or 14:30 UTC. The satellites will begin deployment approximately 54 minutes after launch. A backup launch window opens on Thursday, June 13 at 7:17 a.m. PDT, or 14:17 UTC, and closes at 7:30 a.m. PDT, or 14:30 UTC.

Falcon 9’s first stage for this mission previously supported Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission in March 2019. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to land on SpaceX’s Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

SpaceX's live launch coverage will begin about 15 minutes before liftoff. To watch SpaceX's live launch webcast or to learn more about the mission, visit spacex.com/webcast.

 

Fueling has begun

 

Launched and landed

 

I still can't get over how routine this is.

 

Pretty soon, we won't even get coverage of it or even care that it's happening.

 

I already don't care. Land on the moon already

 

FTFY

 

But, but, but - the only way we can save humanity is to go to another planet.

At least, that is what some yahoo's are saying....

 

I think it's more to the point of saying we did it. Plus, all the technological leaps that have to take place for a manned Mars mission will translate very well into astroid mining/colonization, etc.

 

Routine???

That’s just the minuscule attention span people have nowadays. See it once and interest is lost.

 

I was being sarcastic...

I think at this point, it is seen as a next step. It's the closest planet, and we have to start somewhere.