SpaceX

Posted by: anderson.council on 22 May 2012

Anyone else watch the launch this morning ? Well done to all involved after their last second abort on Saturday this was a fantastic start to their test mission.

I'l admit I wasn't as excited as I was when I was a kid watching the Apollo launches but apart from the fact I'm 40 years older that excitement may return once there is some "spam in the can". For reasons I don't understand myself I never got quite so excited about the shuttle - even though it was a more complex system. Maybe it's the pioneering spirit of the rocket that gets me.

Anyway all that aside fingers crossed for the remainder of this test.

Scott

Posted on: 22 May 2012 by james n

Yes - we watched it this morning. A great launch and fantastic news that the mission is going as planned. An interesting challenger to Soyuz in the medium lift market once it's reliability has been proven.

James

Posted on: 22 May 2012 by JamieWednesday

Posted on: 22 May 2012 by BigH47

I find it pleasing that few peoples ashes have "gone into space" including an astronaut and a Starship chief engineer.

Posted on: 23 May 2012 by BigH47

A retweet from Jon Honeyball :-

"SpaceX's entire history, including rocket design, testing, and launch operations, has cost less than Facebook paid for Instagram."

I personally think that is far better VFM than an image manipulator, but then what do I know?

Posted on: 23 May 2012 by anderson.council

Originally Posted by BigH47:

A retweet from Jon Honeyball :-

"SpaceX's entire history, including rocket design, testing, and launch operations, has cost less than Facebook paid for Instagram."

I personally think that is far better VFM than an image manipulator, but then what do I know?

+1 for Jon

+1 for BigH

... or should I just say I agree with both of you

Posted on: 25 May 2012 by TomK

They've made it to the ISS. A memorable achievement.