this doesn't even look real
Also, imagine if those rockets failed to reignite?
Also, imagine if those rockets failed to reignite?
The control room was alarmingly male. Kind of disappointed with this. Is it too early from the success of the launch to request a full on naming and shaming of the hiring practices of SpaceX?
I know watching the crowd assembled for the launch inside it looked like a sausage fest and i saw someone with long blond hear and thought, a woman! was a dude lol.
I know watching the crowd assembled for the launch inside it looked like a sausage fest and i saw someone with long blond hear and thought, a woman! was a dude lol. Anyway the pic below shows a fair amount of women.
his speech was kinda stuterd and not like some of the other Elon speeches I have viewed
I know watching the crowd assembled for the launch inside it looked like a sausage fest and i saw someone with long blond hear and thought, a woman! was a dude lol. Anyway the pic below shows a fair amount of women.
this doesn't even look real
Also, imagine if those rockets failed to reignite?
Elon has always struggled with public speaking. The Tesla Semi event most recently was notable for his flubs. He's no Jobs in that regard.
I live 60 miles north of KSC, the Heavy looked impressive indeed even from this far away. Have to agree about the sound, I went to the 2nd shuttle launch on base, about 5 miles away, not only is the sound insane the ground literally shakes as it lifts off the pad!. Here's hoping for a bright future for the Heavy, with 5.1 million lbs of thrust it's a beastly machine indeed. Many were outside in their yards and many vehicles had pulled over to watch it, everyone was cheering and/or yelling "go baby go!!!". After seeing space news about other countries so often it was cool as *uck to think, "oh yea, here's our *hit!"..Check this out with headphones
I would recommend you watch the whole thing but you can go to the Launch at 3:15 and the landing sonic booms at 6:40. But wear headphones and turn up the volume!
Here's hoping for a bright future for the Heavy
Thing is, when you scale up in size you run into many unforeseen issues to be dealt with, this is why the Heavy took 3-4 years later to first fly. I don't think SpaceX built it to just say "hey look, we did it!", it will be used to deliver many payloads for hopefully a tidy profit. While I do expect BFR to become operational I'd expect any meaningful flights to be closer to 4-5 years away, your talking an entirely new (and monstrous) platform and a totally new engine design.actually, we don't want that
SpaceX's future is BFR, which is (very optimistically) hoped to be flown next year. The only way Falcon Heavy is relevant is if BFR fails
So here's to hoping for a quick obsolescence for Falcon Heavy
actually, we don't want that
SpaceX's future is BFR, which is (very optimistically) hoped to be flown next year. The only way Falcon Heavy is relevant is if BFR fails
So here's to hoping for a quick obsolescence for Falcon Heavy
Falcon Heavy is probably way cheaper to operate than BFR so I think they both have their place. FH is probably going to be to send small payloads to Mars like rovers while BFR will be for sending large payloads like habitats, and people.
I know watching the crowd assembled for the launch inside it looked like a sausage fest and i saw someone with long blond hear and thought, a woman! was a dude lol. Anyway the pic below shows a fair amount of women.
All that says to me is when it's a photo op they understand that their demographics are skewed. The control room was distinctly male. Perhaps they subscribe to that google engineer's division of gender related roles.