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Frayed Knot May 27 2020 02:33 PM

The launch of two astronauts to the ISS has just been scrubbed due to weather some 30 minutes prior to scheduled lift off. Will try again this weekend for the first manned space launch from US soil in nearly a decade and the first manned mission via a privately built rocket.

TransMonk May 28 2020 07:17 AM Re: Space-X

I had a bad feeling about this launch. With the President in attendance, I had a thought that Musk and Trump might get into a dick measuring contest, throw caution to the wind and launch under unsafe conditions. The last thing 2020 needs is a tragedy on the launchpad. I'm all for space exploration, but the world has more immediate issues to be focused on right now, IMO. If Trump was in charge of Space X, they would have fired up that rocket on Wednesday.

MFS62 May 28 2020 07:30 AM Re: Space-X

=TransMonk post_id=37522 time=1590671861 user_id=71] If Trump was in charge of Space X, they would have fired up that rocket on Wednesday.

I would have wanted the rocket to succeed and the booster fall back on top of him and Pence..

Later

Edgy MD May 28 2020 08:44 AM Re: Space-X

=TransMonk post_id=37522 time=1590671861 user_id=71]If Trump was in charge of Space X, they would have fired up that rocket on Wednesday.

Maybe, but this is the brilliance of the president. If the mission fails, that's on Musk. If the mission succeeds, he's there for the glory.



Just like him coming down to the boxes in the rain with with two out in 2006, or showing up at the Rolling Stones show he had been expressly uninvited from, the dude places himself just close enough to the cameras to creep in at moments of glory and creep away at moments of failure.



All the while, he's done nothing.



The worst.

Lefty Specialist May 28 2020 01:38 PM Re: Space-X

If Trump was in charge of Space X, they'd be bankrupt and would have sold their rockets to the Russians at pennies on the dollar.

Frayed Knot May 30 2020 01:39 PM Re: Space-X

Launch = Successful

41Forever May 30 2020 01:40 PM Re: Space-X

That was amazing to watch!!!

LWFS May 30 2020 07:05 PM Re: Space-X

They land rockets on the pad now? We were SHOCKED at that.

Frayed Knot May 31 2020 05:04 AM Re: Space-X

SpaceX has been doing that for a while now with the payload rockets they've been sending up to ISS. Making those early stages eligible to be re-used was a big jump in allowing all this to go forward as it gave them the ability to keep overall costs down. I mean, the Apollo project was great but the price tag became unsustainable. When, years later, NASA dropped that rover on Mars essentially packed in bubble-wrap the genesis of that idea was to make the mission more cost effective. Or, as one NASA official put it at the time, the costs they were limited to for parts of those Mars projects would have qualified as rounding errors back in the Apollo days.