** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

Cold Fusion said:

Really good too see Falcon 9 back in service and a successful first stage barge landing as well.

Any news on when the Falcon Heavy will have its test flight. SpaceX's website is not exactly a font of information.

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in roughly 6 months, but its been 6 months away for years, just like virgin galactic.

Glaucus said:

just got home, what a camera nagle pointing down through the entire landing burn, spectacular.

and all 10 satellites deployed successfully, welcome back spacex can we have no RUDs this year please, i want to see FH fly and a reused first stage f9.

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Amazing that they can show us a cam video of the rocket landing but we cant watch it entering space......

tracertong said:

Amazing that they can show us a cam video of the rocket landing but we cant watch it entering space......

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wtf are you on about, the most stupid post of the year contender.

do they actually have a onboard cam feed of a full launch?

would be quite cool to see

ooo found one

ooo this one is awesome, only near space, but the HD bit of the payload detaching is beautiful (about 1:15)

plenty


and Saturdays F9 breaking the Kármán line


There's loads of videos from the space shuttle launches.

hopefully somone finds a way to stick a few of those 360 cameras on themthe tip.


imagine a vr rocket ride into space


with your head as the tip of the rocket it would be like you're superman

oh somone did it with an amature rocket

http://hackaday.com/2016/06/20/first-360-degree-video-from-an-amateur-rocket/




interactive 360 view from go pros around it, sadly not full surdound so you cant look "up"

Another moon walker has died , RiP to Gene Cernan the last person to touch the moon.
https://www.nasa.gov/astronautprofiles/cernan

not many left, can the space agencies hurry up and get us back there.

More:

https://www.nasa.gov/astronautprofiles/cernan

Gene Cernan 1934 -2017

RIP

Not in work today, so an opportunity to watch The Last Man on the Moon.

RIP Gene Cernan

RIP Eugene Cernan

RIP

Atlas V SBIRS GEO Flight 3 Launch Highlights:

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet completed his first spacewalk 13 January 2017 together with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough to complete a battery upgrade to the outpost’s power system:

Development of ESA's new-generation launcher, Ariane 6, is underway. A brief glimpse into the future:


More:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Launchers/Launch_vehicles/Ariane_6

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Something rather special has arrived for my collection:




An Indiegogo crowdfunded "Apollo 11 Flight Plan Re-Issue".

very nice, they also released fight for space film last night, which was a kickstarter project, will watch it later.

The Japanese “Kounotori” H-II Transfer Vehicle cargo ship (HTV-6) departs from the station:

This week: