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

[Glaucus]

Dont forget another historic spacex launch at 22:55 tonight.
They are reusing a dragon capsule to resupply the ISS something it was designed to do from the start, not sure why they haven't attempted before now.

 

[Glaucus]

damn it scrubbed due to weather, next attempt on the 3rd.

 

[Cosimo]

Full Space Station tour (in French):

 

[Cosimo]

The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission:

 

[Cosimo]

Dragon launches to the station:

and landing:

 

[Cosimo]

This week:

 

[PlacidCasual]

Watching that first stage land gave me goose bumps. I'd seen landing on barge before but that was so impressive watching it land with such obvious visible control. Wow.

 

[Glaucus]

Watching that first stage land gave me goose bumps. I'd seen landing on barge before but that was so impressive watching it land with such obvious visible control. Wow.

you need to go up the page and find the footage from the nrol mission, where you see the flip of the first stage it is aweosme. In fact here it is.

Skip to 3m23s if you wish.

 

[PlacidCasual]

Thanks for that Glaucus really really impressive.

 

[Liquiduk]

I love this thread, you regulars do a fantastic job of keeping us space plebs informed - cheers.

 

[clubb699]

you need to go up the page and find the footage from the nrol mission, where you see the flip of the first stage it is aweosme. In fact here it is.

Skip to 3m23s if you wish.

Amazing tech and a great video thank you for sharing

 

[TNA]

Amazing tech and a great video thank you for sharing

+1

It never gets old watching them. Amazing.

The camera also did not cut off this time as it was on land rather than out in the sea barge landing.

 

[Malevolence]

That Stage-1 re-entry and landing never fails to make my loins twitch. So ******* impressive.

 

[Cosimo]

Dragon arrives at the station:

 

[Cosimo]

Rollout of a Proton-M/Briz-M with EchoStar 21:

Launch from Baikonur is on the 8th @ 03:45 UTC.

 

[Glaucus]

more stunning video of crs-11 landing. i know the media are already bored of it and see it as normal. wonder if that will happen to me. Hopfully by then we will have dragon v2 landing attempt or something to occupy us.

 

[Glaucus]

Go india, theyve launched their largest rocket to date
Skip to 2:20

 

[Cosimo]

Proton-M/Briz-M with EchoStar 21 launch:

 

[Cosimo]

This week:

 

[Glaucus]

a very interesting video on the 60 yer and counting history of the atlas family of rockets.