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SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch (live)

This was just amazing!!

Did anyone else notice that the GPS screen on the teslas dash read "DON'T PANIC"? :) :) :)
 
PoS said:
I think it was a waste just to send a car up in orbit when they could have put something more productive into it.
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Test run - they didn't want to put anything actually valuable in there because there was only a 50/50 chance of success. Not to mention, there is a computer with the car that contains the sum of human knowledge just orbiting around should something happen here on Earth.
 
poweRob said:
The rocket's two side boosters landed successfully on the ground after launch. SpaceX feed lost its video feed connection to the central core booster as it approached its landing spot in the ocean, but that's common and not necessarily an indicator of failure.

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I sure hope it made it.
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It didn't. Musk stated it hit the water about 100 meters from the barge at about 300 MPH. He said it showered the deck of the barge with debris.
 
azgreg said:
It didn't. Musk stated it hit the water about 100 meters from the barge at about 300 MPH. He said it showered the deck of the barge with debris.
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Awwweee.... Time for meatloaf... "2 out of 3 ain't bad!"
 
PoS said:
I think it was a waste just to send a car up in orbit when they could have put something more productive into it.
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Yeah a block of cement like they normally do for tests. :2razz:
 
This is a great achievement. But I'm still skeptical about the human expedition to Mars. Not because it can not be done by a rocket like this, but because a person physically can not bear the burden of a journey of this kind. Let's leave the study of this planet to automatic devices.
 
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PoS said:
I think it was a waste just to send a car up in orbit when they could have put something more productive into it.
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This was literally the first test flight, there was a decent chance it would never make it to orbit.

No one was willing to risk anything worthy of it's payload capacity, since a useful payload that large might cost more than the launch system itself.
 
azgreg said:
It didn't. Musk stated it hit the water about 100 meters from the barge at about 300 MPH. He said it showered the deck of the barge with debris.
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I was afraid of that when I couldn't find anything about what happened to the central core booster yesterday.

My understanding is that the newest and most untested part was that central core booster, so in a way it makes sense.
 
Can you hear me major tom?


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