Fri 30 Jan 2009
Success SpaceX Falcon 1 - Flight 4 - September 28, 2008
Posted by echan76 under Tech
SpaceRefOnOrbit asked:
This is the 4th flight of Space Exploration Technologies Falcon 1.
Ditto HiAdrian’s remarks. This is one of the most exciting space film/video’s I’ve ever seen. The only other emotion one feels is extreme envy for those lucky few who had worked on this project and got to witness the fruits of their labors.
The spirit of 1960’s NASA lives on!
I can’t wait to go to the moon!
Virgin Galactic, Space X…
Hopefully more companies will plug in the space competition. Private money are more effective than government money. And private space exploration wouldn’t stress government budget.
why cant i see the video
im bored on cam Y0
This stuff is exciting. Imagine you worked on such a project for years and now you sit there watching it, and it’s all in the hands of automated mechanisms (you hopefully designed right).
Awesome, very amazing to see this accomplishment
Jeez, I had a feeling an accomplishment like this might bring about right-wing “free market” fundamentalists because this is a success of a private effort. I really hate when people try to bring politics into spaceflight because it really is an apoltical, pan-human triumph. ‘Socialist’ countries like China and the former Soviet Union have rockets just as reliable (some more so) as ours. Technology and know-how is what makes it fly.
Whatever you politics, reach for the stars.
Ukrainian rockets do not use SpaceX engines. Only SpaceX uses SpaceX engines, and it will stay that way until SpaceX decides to sell the design.
you can see space everytime you look up at a clear sky at night
Not sure — but the engines used (Merlin & Kestrel) were developed in-house by SpaceX, from scratch.
Unmanned satellite launcher, launched from Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands.
Launched by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).
Ukrainian rockets also use such engines. Are there engineers from Ukraine in the team?
Congratulations!
Yes, you were trying to be nice and yet you had to throw in the comment “does it make you sound smart”?
NOW we can be nice to each other.
What on earth are you ppl talking about - this is a rocket launch.
wow what a stubborn asshole you are! I was trying to be nice and see if we could agree on something but you continue to attack me.
And lol 7legion is right, you really are done. still going on about speech eh?
Don’t bother with him, he’ll use every logical fallacy in the book to rationalize that he’s right. People can’t STAND to be told things might work differently than what they believe, and when the time comes for the powers that be to pay for their treason, I’ll have no sympathy for any of the fucking sheep that get in the way. See how that idiot tries to change the subject and attack your speech? It means he has no argument and is being a whiny little cunt.
Okay. Clearly you’re a hypocrite who doesn’t have the integrity to admit his own words.
The way I’m repeating you is simply this: I’m repeating you, as in rewriting something you wrote.
Is that all you can pick out from those two posts! that was just a wee side note I thought of when reading your post, I dont see how you’re repeating ME (aren’t caps great ;p) I never realised I was using odd language, didn’t think I was, so yes at least this is how I type, perhaps not how I speak however.
Nope, not me trying to sound smart. Not even how I normally speak. I’m simply repeating what YOU said. Is this how you normally talk, or is it just you trying to sound smart?
….this post but as I was saying I dont believe in a grand conspiracy that would ’shake the core of our very existence’ but it is possible.
Anyway i have watched certain conspiracy theories and found that many of their beliefs (But not all) are sharen with mine.
I will continue to follow what I believe and its only getting easier for me to do so as What I thought would happen unfolds.
perhaps we could agree if we did not instantly think of each other as enemies
hmmm, I’m not quite sure if thats actually the way you speak or if your trying to sound smart, what is an ‘occult practise’?
anyway, i seem to slightly agree with your post.
But I must tell you I did not gain my views and opinions from watching conspiracy theories, i looked at the Worlds problems, things that are going on around me and other political issues.
and I think there is no way that there cannot be some sort of conspiracy/corruption.
I know I haven’t explained myself very well in…
Bravo SpaceX!!!
q lixoo
If you think that “occult practises” are anything of any importance…well. The government is perfectly happy for people to believe in these conspiracy theories. It distracts them from the actual dynamics of power by getting them to focus on personalities rather than institutional imperatives, which is what actually matters. If you can get people to focus on occult practises and masonic lodges, then they will be distracted from looking at how the socio-economic system ITSELF is what’s wrong.