Space X Falcon Heavy

[JustinJ]

[JustinJ]

Watching Starman live feed with "Rocket Man", "Space Oddity", and "learning to Fly" playing in the background is pretty awesome

[Man]

so cool

[Bayouboy]

Awesomeness!

[18ncs]

Any word on the core? Hope this not too technical but it did appear it was coming in a little cattywampous.

[1369]

Any word on the core? Hope this not too technical but it did appear it was coming in a little cattywampous.

Speculation I’ve read online (for what that’s worth) is it may have run out of fuel/glitched andmissed the drone ship.

[JustinJ]

Elon Musk confirms core hit the water

[Maddox]

Elon Musk confirms core hit the water

I want to see the video of that... Did it miss the boat completely, hit the boat and topple off?

[18ncs]

Did they say if they were able to recover it or did it explode?

looked like it was sputtering at the end.

[Maddox]

I want to see the video of that... Did it miss the boat completely, hit the boat and topple off?

"Hit the water at 300mph and took out two droneship engines"

[JustinJ]

I want to see the video of that... Did it miss the boat completely, hit the boat and topple off?

"Hit the water at 300mph and took out two droneship engines"

yup. Would be a sweet video but im sure the cameras and/or antennas got jacked up!

[Maddox]

As amazing as this is, and I truly mean amazing, I wonder how much tax-payer money went to fund it. Think about it, they just launched a rocket into space to travel to mars with nothing but a Tesla car and stuffed astronaut suit playing David Bowie at a time when our government is about to run out of funding and shut down.

[JustinJ]

Did they say if they were able to recover it or did it explode?

looked like it was sputtering at the end.

I dont think there was anyone close by to recover it.

[JustinJ]

As amazing as this is, and I truly mean amazing, I wonder how much tax-payer money went to fund it. Think about it, they just launched a rocket into space to travel to mars with nothing but a Tesla car and stuffed astronaut suit playing David Bowie at a time when our government is about to run out of funding and shut down.

I think tax payer money did "fund" some of it, but in the form of contracts to carry supplies to the ISS, so it's not like a subsidy. But who really knows what goes on behind closed doors.

That being said, it wasn't just a launch to do a launch. Gotta best the rockets with payload before we can put folks on it. And there's much worse ways to spend gov't money.

[bobc]

As amazing as this is, and I truly mean amazing, I wonder how much tax-payer money went to fund it. Think about it, they just launched a rocket into space to travel to mars with nothing but a Tesla car and stuffed astronaut suit playing David Bowie at a time when our government is about to run out of funding and shut down.

It was a test launch. They would typically send up cement blocks, not satellites. This was an opportunity to throw in some extra advertising and to help build excitement for space.


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