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    SpaceX Discussion Thread

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    2 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

    A spaceport fortress surrounded by a fence, under siege of dragons trying to climb up and break in. 
    Burning them from top with fire jets, so the wasteland and swamp around is covered with sooty dragon skeletons...

    What a fantastic fantastic setting... And all this irl... Wow...

     

    Replace spaceport with factory and dragons with alien bugs and that sounds like  my experience with Factorio!

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

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    29 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

    A little offtopic question, please. (Maybe already discussed, but I haven't followed all launch day pages).

    Just watched the launch video.
    Was the left man wearing glasses during the launch???

    The DM2 Launch? 

    Yes, Doug Hurley (the Astronaut closest to the camera during launch and on the left as they were sitting in the capsule) had corrective lenses (glasses) on at launch.  It looks like he took them off by the time they got to the ISS though.  Wonder if he popped in contacts after they woke up from their rest and prepared for docking.

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

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    6 hours ago, Xd the great said:

    Are they going to fly it over?

    The twitter thread linked goes into more detail on what the twitter user believes is going to happen.  As a quick TL;DR though, she thinks they'll be taking it from the construction area on the green path on the bottom (State Rd. 528; there is currently evidence of this in the twitter thread.  Power companies currently working on burying overhead power lines so they won't be an obstruction; could be coincidence or not...) and then offloading it onto a barge at Port Canaveral.  From there it'll be placed on a barge and floated North (the purple path) on the barge to the turn basin at the launch complex (which has within the last year received refurbishment/maintenance to handle a "renewed need").  From there, it'll be removed from the barge in the turn basin and rolled the rest of the way to LC39-A using the light blue/cyan path that connects to the turn basin in the north and LC39-A.

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

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    1 minute ago, mikegarrison said:

    Destroying wetland areas in a nature preserve is not really a good look for SpaceX.

    I would imagine that SpaceX will be required to restore the areas they damage or destroy back to their original state or better.  Usually wetlands are pretty heavily protected, especially in ecologically important areas like S. Padre (one of the largest sea turtle spawning locations in the world).

    SpaceX Discussion Thread

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    14 minutes ago, CatastrophicFailure said:

    Or Boeing astronauts, FWIW. This sucks. Maybe they got lucky and it's just a piece of ground support hardware, not the D2 itself.

     

    Unconfirmed reports from a "Reliable friend at the cape" from this thread:

    said complete/near-complete loss of vehicle.

     

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