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

[Cail]

Stage 1 landing successful!!!!

[Cail]

Dragon separation successful!

[TsingTao]

And of course my old ass fell asleep on the fucking couch. Glad to hear it went well!

Time to watch the replay, see when Dragon is scheduled to dock.

[TsingTao]

My new favorite launch footage, great stuff! Lots of cool things to see, including the new Dragon interior, a glimpse of the controls/UI for the manned capsule, and great footage all through the launch. Can't wait to see the actual docking procedure (I hope they show it live).

Replay: https://youtu.be/2ZL0tbOZYhE

Now I gotta go find where I can get my own super high tech zero gravity indicator.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1101701552153219072

Edit: Didn't take long to find. Other planets also available

https://shop.amnh.org/earth-celestial-buddy.html

[Cail]

I believe docking is live tonight starting around 330a EST with docking around 630a

[6souls]

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-...-down-to-earth

[TsingTao]

SpaceX has a new video up on Youtube. If you're a nerd like me and still watch every launch with a sense of wonder when the first stage returns you'll want to spend a minute to watch.

https://youtu.be/Z4TXCZG_NEY

The 4K version looks gooooood.

[synistar]

Fuck yea Falcon Heavy 3 for 3 on booster recovery. 2 side boosters on land, center booster on the drone ship.

[6souls]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019...ding-thursday/

Spoiler: show

Israel's Beresheet spacecraft smashed into the moon while attempting a landing.

On Thursday, SpaceIL's lunar lander attempted to make a soft landing on the surface of the Moon, but it apparently crashed instead into the gray world. Although a postmortem analysis has not yet been completed, telemetry from the spacecraft indicated a failure of the spacecraft's main engine about 10km above the Moon. Thereafter, it appears to have struck the Moon at a velocity of around 130 meters per second.

“We have had a failure in the spacecraft," Opher Doron, general manager of the space division at Israel Aerospace Industries, which built the lander, said during the landing webcast. "We have unfortunately not managed to land successfully.” Israeli engineers vowed to try again.

[Niiro]

Moon confirmed to be pro-Palestine.

[kuronosan]

I'm surprised Israel didn't conduct a raid and try to annex the crash site.

[Outlaw]

Fuck yea Falcon Heavy 3 for 3 on booster recovery. 2 side boosters on land, center booster on the drone ship.

@1:25

The feed cut out when the third landed on the drone ship. >_<

[6souls]

I guess today is Space Day and there is a bunch of charity streams happening.

[TsingTao]

Another launch this evening, at about 10pm CST. 60 of SpaceX's Starlink sats for a payload.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT366GiQkP0

[Salodin]

Launch got scrubbed, trying again tomorrow.

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[TsingTao]

Stupid wind.

[BerenTebogo]

Man you guys really don't get bored with rocket launches huh? I only care about that shit if I'm in person for it.

[Andalusian girls]

to see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower

[Salodin]

I get more interested when they reach a new milestone with the new upright landing rockets. Returning all 3 from the first stage boost a few weeks ago was pretty neat. This one was cool just cause I wanted to see six dozen satellites released from this satellite.

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[Mertron]

to see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower

i shot an arrow into the air
it fell to earth, i knew not where