Moon Base 13, The Moon: NASA Is In Kinga Forrester's Pocket

[archibaldcrane]

Nice that they nailed it for a NASA mission too.

[synistar]

Reaction reminds me of a voice chat downing a raid boss for the first time. Freakin awesome.

[myreality]

This may be a stupid question, but why not do the landing over....well land? Do they prefer the water to help absorb the energy of the landing or something? I just think that the ocean has way to many variables to cause a failure.

[Psion]

it's because you only have so much fuel you can use, and the earth is rotating, and different orbits take you to different parts of the earth and well... lets just say when oceans cover 70% of earth your odds of being near a landing pad on land isn't always the highest. when you can move your landing pad all over the earth though, suddenly a lot of missions that wouldn't normally have enough fuel to make it back to a landing pad on land can do so with an ocean landing.

It's not that oceans are ideal conditions for landing, it's just theyre the only option to land at all a lot of the time.

[Meresgi]

Awesome watching this shit go down, totally made me go over to the SpaceX careers page and apply haha.

[Andalusian girls]

what did we ever do to deserve Musk

[Byrthnoth]

what did we ever do to deserve Musk

Musk's mother! /hi5

[Andalusian girls]

[myreality]

it's because you only have so much fuel you can use, and the earth is rotating, and different orbits take you to different parts of the earth and well... lets just say when oceans cover 70% of earth your odds of being near a landing pad on land isn't always the highest. when you can move your landing pad all over the earth though, suddenly a lot of missions that wouldn't normally have enough fuel to make it back to a landing pad on land can do so with an ocean landing.

It's not that oceans are ideal conditions for landing, it's just theyre the only option to land at all a lot of the time.

Damn, I did not even think of this.

[Cantih]

There's also the fact that people tend to have this thing about launch and landing corridors that go over areas with population, in case something goes fubar.
It's very easy to get long stretches of uninhabited zoning when it's over a fuckload of ocean.

[Ragnus]

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/8/113...-rocket-t-pain

[Waraji]

XD fucking awesome.



He probably deleted it due to PR what with the expletives. You know how them corporate people feel about cuss words.

[Jaybar]

XD fucking awesome.



He probably deleted it due to PR what with the expletives. You know how them corporate people feel about cuss words.

Apparently deleted because he feared copyright issues from Lonely Island, but they were totes cool with using their song anyway.

[zoobernut]

Awesome video. Fits perfectly. I was so excited about the successful landing and its implications and simultaneously so disappointed that I didn't see much excitement about it from other people.

[Zzsark]

A friend at SpaceX forwarded me an email with that link that Elon had sent to the entire company.

[Waraji]

https://imgur.com/gallery/m9CYe

Great SpaceX history lesson that was on FP on Imgur last night. Really goes to show how far they have come, not only that but reminiscing about the Grasshopper days was pretty neat.

[Waraji]

Next Launch & Experimental Landing on Barge was scheduled for Tomorrow May 3rd, but since rescheduled to the 5th.

Will post more updates coming to launch time.

[TsingTao]

Any details from post landing analysis yet? I'm quite interested to hear how the first one held up on the return trip, and they've had a couple weeks now to examine the sucker.

I know, these things take time. I'm just excited. I'm getting old...I'd like to see some properly cool things happen before I die. What Elon is doing with SpaceX qualifies.

[archibaldcrane]

Due to weather at the Cape, we are now targeting Friday, May 6 at 1:21 a.m. ET for the launch of JCSAT-14

[Waraji]

It is a great day here in Florida today. Not a cloud in the sky, with an apparent 65 degree "cold front", therefore I suspect launch will be happening tonight. Unfortunately I won't be up for this one ; ; first time in years.

At least I have something to wake up to. Which is nice.

Edit:

Webcast is up for anyone interested in watching tonight.

http://www.spacex.com/webcast