>Space X Rocket Launch 4/14/2015 + more<
>Space X Rocket Launch 4/14/2015 + more<
Hi Member's,
I hope that you enjoy the below...
It was a beautiful launch 2day
I hope that you enjoy the below...
It was a beautiful launch 2day
Watch live: SpaceX rocket launch and attempted drone ship recovery landing
Launching rockets is a complicated thing. Landing them upright on a platform floating in the ocean? Well, that’s never been done before. SpaceX, the private space exploration company founded by billionaire Elon Musk, hopes to give it a try.
If the weather cooperates, at 4:10 p.m. ET on Tuesday, SpaceX will launch its seventh mission from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to the International Space Station.
After the launch, SpaceX will try to guide the bottom stage of the rocket upright onto a platform, or what it calls an autonomous spaceport drone ship, in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida.
Usually booster rockets burn up in Earth’s atmosphere or, like NASA’s space shuttle boosters, they fall back into the ocean.
So why try to land one?
Musk wants to cut costs. On his company’s website, he says that if anyone can figure out how to “reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space will be reduced by as much as a factor of a hundred.”
^ ^Unsuccessful Falcon 9 landing in January.
SpaceX tried to land a Falcon 9 on the drone ship in January, but the rocket hit at an angle and exploded.
The company has previously said the odds of a successful landing are about 50%. If you want to see how it goes, it will post photos online throughout the mission and will put video on YouTube.
And if the landing doesn’t work? SpaceX says it will keep trying and, after it masters landing at sea, hopes to someday land rockets on the ground.
What about the rest of the rocket and the Dragon? The smaller, top part of the rocket will carry the Dragon into orbit and then break away from the cargo ship and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carries supplies to the International Space Station.
The Dragon will dock with the space station a couple of days after launch to deliver more than 4,300 pounds (1,950 kilograms) of supplies, including research equipment and ISSpresso, an espresso maker that astronauts can use to make coffee and tea.
The space station crew will spend about five weeks unpacking the Dragon. They’ll then stuff it with over 3,000 pounds of science experiments, trash and other stuff to send back to Earth. When they’re done, Dragon will leave the space station and mission controllers will guide it to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California.
This is the sixth SpaceX mission to the International Space Station. The company was the first private space contractor to dock with the station.
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POSTED 4:00 PM, APRIL 14, 2015, BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE, UPDATED AT 04:09PM, APRIL 14, 2015
Last edited by BeachBumMike; Apr 14, 2015 at 03:46 PM. Reason: 2 make many corrections...Good thing I'm not in control (LOL)<
Hi `Barbara >LOL>
It's a high cost food shipment to the Space Station 4>Sure
+ experimental equipment.
I think in our lifetime that civilians will be able to launch in2
outer `Space.
I'm glad it was successful this time.
It's a high cost food shipment to the Space Station 4>Sure
+ experimental equipment.
I think in our lifetime that civilians will be able to launch in2
outer `Space.
I'm glad it was successful this time.
Good thing I was not on that rocket then cause I am hungry!!! LOL Would have gotten to the space station with nothing but food wrappers!!!
Hi Everyone `if U got this far ?
LoL `Barbara >That was funny >U should keep candy bars in your desk (lol)Look how much they are spending trying to arrest me
(all they got me 4 was a pipe)
(nothing in it either) LOL
Drones cost $28,000 for one arrest <click it `if U want 2 know more infor (?) Time = Life = Knowledge
Thanks Barbara & Ken for your posts.
Hopefully someday you will be able to see one in person..
They have many planned & the program is getting strong again.
The 2nd vid is long, but it shows a lot of the preparation b-4 Blast `Off.
Hopefully someday you will be able to see one in person..
They have many planned & the program is getting strong again.
The 2nd vid is long, but it shows a lot of the preparation b-4 Blast `Off.
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