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    Great, now when can I finally ditch Comcast?
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    Twitter said there might be camera footage of the booster separation, too, but anyone’s guess if it’s ever made public.
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    The wife & I agree that some of the best money we spent when we bought this place was adding keyless entry. Impossible to lose a door code.
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    Um... what? Commsats going to GSO don't spend months in the Van Allens either...
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    Hence, we send the crew up a new station. Clearly.
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    Purpose is to look fast. ‘Nuff said.
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    So clearly, after discussing all the options here, the only logical solution at this point is to wait until BFR is flying, and simply launch the crew a new space station.
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    SO if I'm thinking this right, it's the bit that creates the big plume of vapor in this shot? Dang, that's alotta pressure.
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    ...or we could just use one of those armored X-71's NASA's been keeping at Area 51 while they track down that saboteur...
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    ...or be kept around and subjected to ridicule...
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    Kinda like how, instead of spending obscene sums of money to invent a space pen, they just used a pencil...
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    THAT much went normally, the LAS tower is supposed to be jettisoned just before booster sep, but there’s another set of abort motors on the fairing that pulled the capsule away. You see, Ivan, when put abort motor on abort motors...
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    I hadn’t heard anything concrete one way or the other, but just given the nature of the mission, I would think they’d want to eliminate as many potential unknowns as possible. Giant cheese wheels in the “snacks” bin aside... Oh, haven’t you heard? That’s been delayed again... due insufficient funds.
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    Given that it’s a maiden flight, stuffing it full of cargo might be a non-trivial thing. They’ll have it virtually lined with sensors that need very specific conditions, launch couches(?), etc. Any significant amount of cargo might be a variable they don’t want on a test flight. Tho it’s SpaceX, and the two Dragons need different docking ports. So here’s the perfect time for that 24 hour turnaround they’ve been touting, get to look like hero’s too.
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    @AVaughan A tweet somewhere said that thrusters on the shroud were used to separate the descent module, the tower itself had been jettisoned. IIRC Soyuz has these smaller abort motors on the shroud too. @Ultimate Steve per the news briefing on now, abort was at about 50... actually I’m not sure if that’s miles or kilometers, anyway, they did coast into space. Good photo of the “oops.”
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    Possible death throes of the booster, seen from China.
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    So did the escape tower pull the capsule away, or not? This is what's confusing me right now. It would appear that it did not, that the crew made an abort using engines like Soyuz 18-a or maybe with the third stage, but that seems odd given that right now they're saying a booster failed to separate properly and hit the core stage...
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    Things to wake up to in the middle of the night. When did the incident actually happen? After booster sep, yes, but before or after Tower jettison? Or do we even know at this point? Glad Crew are safe.
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    They would gain all the respect I have to give if the lander, upon landing, spits out a little model of the KerbalX with “Mün or bust” on the side then takes a picture of it.
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    Two companies. Ares I OmegA barely even counts as vaporware right now.
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    because I had to. So all the cool stuff is gonna happen in 2019 right? Right?? I don’t wanna be this old before...
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    ... mostly because we cannot remember when or why we made said box, just that it happened to be nearby when we needed to measure mountains...
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    After a thrilling start, 2018 is becoming a bit disappointing.
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