Frozen_Heart Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 2 minutes ago, Delta_8930 said: My Kerbals: "Let's try that in KSP!" RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KerbonautInTraining Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Quote Congrats SpaceX on landing Falcon's suborbital booster stage. Welcome to the club! -Jeff Bezos via Twitter Passive aggressiveness is strong with this one. I love it how the second stage cutoff happened during the landing burn, I only noticed it the third time I re-watched the landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kartoffelkuchen Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Oh man! Thank you so much SpaceX! I can't think of a better birthday present than a landed first stage!! WOOHOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elthy Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 The last time i saw so many people excited in front of a screen was 2014 after the goal against Argentina in the world-championship. I had stop myself from screaming loud, everyone else in the house is sleeping... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razark Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 1 minute ago, KerbonautInTraining said: Passive aggressiveness is strong with this one. After Musk's twits last month? I find it very fitting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Absolutely Faaaaaaaaaantastic! Congrats to Musk and his hard-working SpaceX team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djnattyd Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 So when are we going to officially rename Elon Musk to Tony Stark? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frida Space Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Wow. Jeff Bezos on Twitter: Quote Congrats @SpaceX on landing Falcon's suborbital booster stage. Welcome to the club! .... no words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman703 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 1 minute ago, cubinator said: "The goal is Mars, because no one wants to go back to Jakku." *facepalm* Did anyone else catch that? Oh good, I'm not the only one that had no idea what that meant. Explain? Nerd reference I'm missing here? Also, Jeff Bezos wishes he could be part of the SpaceX club. Hats off to both companies, but SpaceX's feat vastly dwarfs BO's. Is my Fanboyism showing? Think my fanboyism is showing. Ehh, whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngelLestat Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Well, historic day.. I was watching the stream with my family. Congrats Elon.. Thanks for proving that few people with great vision and ideas can do more than thousands of pessimistic in their lifetime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frybert Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Just now, djnattyd said: So when are we going to officially rename Elon Musk to Tony Stark? When he does this with a suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winged Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 7 minutes ago, Delta_8930 said: My Kerbals: "Let's try that in KSP!" Been there, done that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Just now, Wingman703 said: Oh good, I'm not the only one that had no idea what that meant. Explain? Nerd reference I'm missing here? It's a Star Wars VII reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirtualCLD Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 My wife and I were cheering out loud in our tiny family room when they landed. I think we startled the dogs. On serious note, does anyone know the status of the second stage re-light and de-orbit burn? I believe that one of the secondary (or is it tertiary) goals was to test the re-light capability of the upgraded second stage for the upcoming SES launch (as well as all other Geo-transfer launches). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KerBlammo Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Hopefully Space X will release some HD video from the pad in the near future, and just imagine what a daylight landing will be like! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frida Space Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 1 hour ago, Wingman703 said: Hats off to both companies, but SpaceX's feat vastly dwarfs BO's. Is my Fanboyism showing? Think my fanboyism is showing. Ehh, whatever. Bezos went straight up, straight down. Yes, it's rocket science, so even that is incredibly challenging, and hats off to BO. But what SpaceX just did tonight is just a whole new level of complexity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen_Heart Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 4 minutes ago, razark said: After Musk's twits last month? I find it very fitting. They're both petty here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winged Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Hopefully they will release soon some more information about Mars Colonial Transporter. Now is the best moment to do it.:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman703 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) Few pictures are trickling out. I can't wait for someone to grab some daylight photos of it tomorrow, assuming they are leaving it on the pad that long and not wisking it off right away. On right, the assent, on left, the decent( I think. Right? Doesn't make sense to my brain if it was the other way). Edited December 22, 2015 by Wingman703 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frida Space Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) 1 hour ago, Frozen_Heart said: They're both petty here. Except one of them has the right to be so, the other one is promising but has yet to achieve a tenth of what the other has done in the past few years. /ending muskfanboyism Edited December 22, 2015 by Frida Space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razark Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 3 minutes ago, Frozen_Heart said: They're both petty here. Indeed. I said it was a fitting response, not a nice one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softweir Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 26 minutes ago, WuphonsReach said: Probably due to the colder LOX that they are using for this flight (which also caused some issues last Thursday during pre-launch / prior to the static fire). Surely the colder LOX ought to cause less boil-off compared to the warmer LOX, because it has to absorb more heat to warm up to boiling point before it can start to boil? It may be the ambient air was more humid than previously, which would make the boil-off more visible. The boiling O2 is invisible without condensation from ambient air - in a desert you'd see next to nothing, maybe some refraction effects similar to heat haze caused by the much colder, denser O2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchz95 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Just watched it with my whole family. Even though they're not really into space, they were able to appreciate how impressive this is. I hope it leads to great things down the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frybert Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 5 minutes ago, Wingman703 said: Few pictures are trickling out. I can't wait for someone to grab some daylight photos of it tomorrow, assuming they are leaving it on the pad that long and not wisking it off right away. On right, the assent, on left, the decent( I think. Right? Doesn't make sense to my brain if it was the other way). From that angle that looks correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frida Space Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) 1 hour ago, Wingman703 said: Few pictures are trickling out. I can't wait for someone to grab some daylight photos of it tomorrow, assuming they are leaving it on the pad that long and not wisking it off right away. On right, the assent, on left, the decent( I think. Right? Doesn't make sense to my brain if it was the other way). I think the ascent is on the left and the descent on the right, because on the right you can see the final two reentry burns of the first stage. I think. Edited December 22, 2015 by Frida Space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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