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

[Tarage]

The landing this time was soft as hell. It's like sitting down at this point.

[Andalusian girls]

or kerbal space program

[synistar]

Another successful launch and landing of a reused Falcon 9. See you on Sunday for the West Coast launch of the Iridium Satellites.

[archibaldcrane]

Another satellite launch in 5 minutes:

http://www.spacex.com/webcast

No landing planned though, requires too much fuel to get this one into proper orbit for it to return.

[archibaldcrane]

Good launch, waiting on satellite deployment.

[Jaybar]

It's also the heaviest payload to geostationary orbit by a Falcon 9. Really stress-testing those boosters.

[Rhyis.]

Met Chris Hadfield for the 2nd time last week. Dude is such a boss.

[zoobernut]

Met Chris Hadfield for the 2nd time last week. Dude is such a boss.

That man is awesome. Loved reading his book and watching all of his youtube videos. I am quite jealous of you.

[EternityEnd]

Sir, how could we know Mars didn't have ancient civilizations if the Earth is only 5000 years old????????????????

[archibaldcrane]

That's the guy Paul Ryan joked is being paid by the Russians lol

[Clash Perez]

Sir, how could we know Mars didn't have ancient civilizations if the Earth is only 5000 years old????????????????

"Extremely unlikely"?

...So you're saying there's a chance.

[Tarage]

Should we change the title since NASA isn't even trying to get people to Mars anymore?

[TsingTao]

After a little summer vacation SpaceX has another launch today. Today's mission involves sending supplies and a supercomputer to the space station. It's also the last "new" Dragon capsule that's scheduled to launch...everything after today will be recycled capsules. We will also get a Falcon return back to the pad. Low earth orbit for the capsule means plenty of fuel to come all the way back to Florida.

Instant launch window at 12:31pm EST, estimated 70% chance weather cooperates for a launch.

[Zetanio]

After a little summer vacation SpaceX has another launch today. Today's mission involves sending supplies and a supercomputer to the space station. It's also the last "new" Dragon capsule that's scheduled to launch...everything after today will be recycled capsules. We will also get a Falcon return back to the pad. Low earth orbit for the capsule means plenty of fuel to come all the way back to Florida.

Instant launch window at 12:31pm EST, estimated 70% chance weather cooperates for a launch.

During my lunch break, perrrrfect.

[TsingTao]

Stream live, 3 minutes to launch window.

-And we have launch.

-And we have another successful first stage return. Beautiful footage all the way back.

I love that something so technically difficult, something that just a few years ago was supposed to be impossible, is becoming commonplace.

[TummieGaruda]

Stream live, 3 minutes to launch window.

-And we have launch.

-And we have another successful first stage return. Beautiful footage all the way back.

I love that something so technically difficult, something that just a few years ago was supposed to be impossible, is becoming commonplace.

Let's just hope they don't start getting complacent like NASA did over the course of the shuttle program.

[TsingTao]

I prefer to think everyone involved, from the top down, knows better. It's definitely something to be concerned about long term though. Commonplace doesn't mean it's still not extremely difficult and incredibly easy to go catastrophically wrong if someone gets complacent.

[archibaldcrane]

They're going to do the first test of the Falcon Heavy 3-rocket vehicle in November, supposedly, and attempt to land all 3 boosters which would be insane.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/28/1...aunch-november

Simulation video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXXiVWFgphb/

[Boyiee]

3 times the YouTubes to watch. Am excite.

[TsingTao]

Instagram pic of SpaceX's new space suit.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYIPmEFAIIn/

Looks damn good. Can't wait to see full shots, see how much the final working suit looks like the mockup on Reddit a couple years ago.