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The Delta IV Orion Launch... RECORDING HERE! (Soon)

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Which style of video do you want?  

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  1. 1. Which style of video do you want?

    • Silent- only rocket
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    • Scott Manley style science video for all
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    • Play Royalty music in background of video
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    • Other (please specify)
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Motokid600

Motokid600

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How are the winds down there? That seems to be there only concern at this moment.

Questions... Whats that burning next to the rocket?

And is there alternate views I can get of the launch other then NasaTV?

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Tiberion

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So I was just watching NASATV and NASA Director Charles Bolden was talking for a bit about NASA's plans on the way to Mars. He admitted that they were looking for "partners" (either commercial or other nations) who would come to them and say "Can you put us on the moon" and he would answer "Absolutely we can" and that they would use the Enhanced SLS (ESLS, the upgraded future version) to take a partner's lander to the moon and lend them their expertise to explore the moon and "maybe send a couple of NASA astronauts along" to help them out and learn some things"

He was sort of talking the folksy way he does, but its really one of the few public statements he has made about doing things at the moon. Just previously he was talking about us becoming "Earth Independent" and that future Orion flights were meant to earn us that capability. Such that ISS-based human flight duration studies would continue through 2024 and then switch to "the moon for 5 to 10 years" before sending humans to Mars in the 2030s.

It's interesting. Its good that they DO have plans and desires for Lunar studies beyond just flight-test flybys. Even if they don' want to start a "moon landing" program they have a desire to see it happen.

How awesome would it be for the ESA or JAXA to aim for a Moon landing in the 2020s, hitching a ride on the SLS? Or something even crazier, that a private partner would be the one to return to the moon with NASA?

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MockKnizzle

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Questions... Whats that burning next to the rocket?

That's a flame stack burning off excess hydrogen fuel. The white gases coming out of the rocket itself are excess oxygen.

Apparently there's a boat within the restricted waterway zone...

What a beautiful sunrise for the launch :)

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Themorris

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anyone elses streams choppy?

yup, looks like old vhs...

Themorris, the launch window is almost three hours so the hold shouldn't be an issue if it's short.

nice to hear, i have to go to work in three hours anyways

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