SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch

[K_W]

- Unconfirmed - from Twitter user with "friend at SpaceX"

Center core failed to relight properly and was lost.

 

[SMiller]

I live close enough to see it and wouldn't you know it I forgot until all there was left was contrail...

 

[ghuns]

I wonder if it took out the ship, too - or at least a chunk of it.

The video feed was fine... right up to the point it wasn't. Lots of smoke.

When the 2 boosters were coming in, it looked to me like they were too fast. Turns out, they weren't. But, if that core didn't slow down... that's a big boom.

I think they have previously "blowed up" the drone ship and center booster so it happens. Too bad no footage.

 

[BugI02]

Yeah, but....

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"Our Germans are better than their Germans"

 

[Alpo]

I took the foto down as it was obviously a cut and paste job.

But Op Paperclip....

 

[K_W]

They cut the video awful quick when the feed from the drone ship went out. It's a gonner. :-(

 

[HoughMade]

Saturn V 7,610,000 lbs thrust at lift-off, payload to LEO 310,000lbs

Space-X heavy 5,548,500 lbs thrust at takeoff, payload to LEO 140,700lbs

von Braun still has the belt

As I told my kids:

Why did we beat the Russians to the moon you ask? Because our Nazi scientists were smarter than their Nazi scientists.

+1 for the Meat Loaf quote.

I remember back in the day watching space shuttle launches and landings....we were barely 17 and we were barely dressed.

 

[Alpo]

I remember Sputnik. Yer jest a young pup.

Of course, The Mouse used to help Ben with his kite experiments.....

 

[churchmouse]

I remember Sputnik. Yer jest a young pup.

Of course, The Mouse used to help Ben with his kite experiments.....

I still have the scars.....

 

[K_W]

Still not a peep out of SpaceX about the core...

 

[K_W]

Breaking News!... the Tesla Roadster currently in orbit, has no brakes. Seriously, it has no brakes, no suspension, and likely no other heavy parts. It's just a shell with wheels.

So, technically it is NOT the first car in space, it's the first car BODY in space.

There goes any hopes of the first man on Mars (me) getting a free Tesla.

 

[chezuki]

Centercore apparently did NOT land on the boat.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...heavy-launch-success-roadster-orbit-elon-musk

 

[rob63]

Breaking News!... the Tesla Roadster currently in orbit, has no brakes. Seriously, it has no brakes, no suspension, and likely no other heavy parts. It's just a shell with wheels.

So, technically it is NOT the first car in space, it's the first car BODY in space.

There goes any hopes of the first man on Mars (me) getting a free Tesla.

What counts as a car? Why wouldn't the old lunar rover be the first car in space?

 

[K_W]

What counts as a car? Why wouldn't the old lunar rover be the first car in space?

I believe it's officially classified as a "rover".

 

[snorko]

Red roadster with a mannequin in a space suit. And NO one in the media has called out the reference. Am I the only one who has seen Heavy Metal?

 

[chezuki]

What counts as a car? Why wouldn't the old lunar rover be the first car in space?

Hollywood is not space.

 

[K_W]

Red roadster with a mannequin in a space suit. And NO one in the media has called out the reference. Am I the only one who has seen Heavy Metal?

And "Don't Panic" on the dash display. No body read THHGTTG either.

 

[K_W]

Hollywood is not space.

 

[chezuki]

 

[actaeon277]

Red roadster with a mannequin in a space suit. And NO one in the media has called out the reference. Am I the only one who has seen Heavy Metal?