Quicksand Fans

Cool! Thanks! I promise I won't scratch it.

https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

i'll happily just be a passenger

Good to see the crew made it to the ISS. In addition, this launch marks the first successful landing of a Falcon booster on their drone barge out at sea, another big milestone.
I love the idea of going into space but the day to day reality of living in those tiny little capsules would probably drive me nuts pretty quick. I'm not claustrophobic per se but confined spaces are not my favorite thing.

Mynock wrote:Good to see the crew made it to the ISS. In addition, this launch marks the first successful landing of a Falcon booster on their drone barge out at sea, another big milestone.

Maybe I misunderstood that, but they have been landing on a barge for some time now. Even the core stage from the second Falcon heavy had made such a touchdown. The first was in 2016.

"As of 2 June 2020, 42 Falcon 9 flights have attempted to land on a drone ship, with 33 of them succeeding (78.6%)."

Meanwhile, I finally got my flight! https://youtu.be/4yk6jrq4uzQ

Sorry I'm so long about getting into this. I doubt there's a bigger space nerd here than me. This was a big one if for no other reason than forces beyond fickle politicians now have control of getting into space. It's huge for humanity. The real space age is finally here. Over the next couple of years you are going to see a lot more people than just NASA astronauts booking flights.

When I was a kid "they" said I'd be able to buy a ticket to fly to a space station in orbit or even the moon during my lifetime. Cool!

"They" failed to inform us that the station trip was 40 million dollars and a moon vacation will hurt you for $200-250 mill when it happens. Better start hitting those lottery scratch-offs hard now.

BogDog wrote:Cool! Thanks! I promise I won't scratch it.

https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

Shotgun!!!!

Anybody else find the orbiting Tesla?

Chimerix wrote:Anybody else find the orbiting Tesla?

Is it in the sim? I did not notice.

Speaking of which:

"In August 2019, as the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun, Musk stated that SpaceX may one day launch a small spacecraft to catch up with the Roadster and take photographs."