SpaceX and other space stuff

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Stage separation looks clean! Hot Staging Confirmed!

 

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Booster's coming home! (I don't think they're even trying to land it, maybe a soft water practice landing in the Gulf?)

 

[Winslow]

Wow, those grid fins were working really hard there before the signal loss.

Still, leaps and bounds beyond the first two tests. Well done.

 

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Nominal orbital insertion! Engines shut down! She's UP!!

 

[Winslow]

Oh, now we get space-lounge jazz in the interim. Swanky.

"We'll be right back, so... don't you go changin'..."

 

[StereoPlayer]

Pure awesome!

 

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Confirmed they lost the booster, after re-entry, sounds like not all of the landing engines came back on, that was some wild gyrating on those grid fins!

 

[JKos]

The last telemetry reading indicated it impacted at over 1000 km/h. Ouch.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Nice bumper music on X

 

[Winslow]

Nice bumper music on X

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[Winslow]

The last telemetry reading indicated it impacted at over 1000 km/h. Ouch.

Engine burn or not, there were going to be some freaked-out fish under that thing.

 

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Watching the live view out the payload bay doors as they close. Demo done, I guess.

 

[JKos]

My son was 6 miles from the launch. Unfortunately, it was too foggy to see anything but they sure heard and felt it.

 

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I bet there were a lot of unaware (hung over) spring breakers who thought the world was ending…

 

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[StereoPlayer]

Probably doing the fuel transfer test now.

 

[Winslow]

Probably doing the fuel transfer test now.

Just heard a callout to that effect, yes.

And, now complete.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Just heard a callout to that effect, yes.

And, now complete.

I thought so too…but the music is in the way of the engineers.

 

[Winslow]

I thought so too…but the music is in the way of the engineers.

Even engineers wanna cut loose and boogie now and then...

Nah, who am I kidding.