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Historic SpaceX Falcon 9 launch and landing

  • 22-12-2015 1:16am
    #1
    nokia69
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    SpaceX are about to launch a Falcon9 and maybe land the first stage back close to the launch pad

    you can watch it live here http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

    If this works it will be a huge step on the way to Mars


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  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Bozos kind of beat them to the punch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pillaOxGCo


  • #3
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,577 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    Ah hello, have you not seen the documentary "the Martian".


  • #4
    nokia69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭nokia69


    Overheal wrote: »
    Bozos kind of beat them to the punch...

    na, not really

    this is way harder


  • #5
    Ken.
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    Reopened with my apologises. I was a bit hasty.


  • #6
    mailforkev
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    That was pretty cool.


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  • #7
    ballsymchugh
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    that was fooking amazing!!!


  • #8
    Peregrine
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    Woooooo :D


  • #9
    nokia69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭nokia69


    Its not often we get to see something so amazing live


  • #10
    Firewalkwithme
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    Incredible, thanks for that nokia69


  • #11
    nokia69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭nokia69




    Just like God and Robert Heinlein intended :D


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  • #12
    nokia69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭nokia69


    Cartoon_Head wrote: »
    Incredible, thanks for that nokia69

    you're welcome

    there might be an even better one next summer, when they launch the Falcon heavy, they may try and land two falcon9s at the same time

    also there will be a day time landing soon enough


  • #13
    Duggy747
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    One step closer to saying this and getting to actually mean it :D


  • #14
    cruizer101
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    Why was this more significant and harder than the Blue Origin one?


  • #15
    Duggy747
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    cruizer101 wrote: »
    Why was this more significant and harder than the Blue Origin one?

    Blue Orbit went up and came back down.

    SpaceX went higher, faster, and was designed to drop payloads off. In this case, it deployed 11 satellites into orbit and then returned safely to a launch pad 9 miles down from it's original launch :)


  • #16
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    nokia69 wrote: »
    SpaceX are about to launch a Falcon9 and maybe land the first stage back close to the launch pad

    you can watch it live here http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

    If this works it will be a huge step on the way to Mars

    The important thing here is to figure out whether anyone was wearing an offensive item of clothing.


  • #17
    The_Valeyard
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    Impressive. Now we Judy need craft that can survive long voyages.


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