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

[silverblack]

Amazing.. i think Musk is an alien makes sense

 

[Combat squirrel]

IS IT DEFO LOST? I HAVE SEEN NO INFO ?!

 

[VaderDSL]

Yep the lunar fly around mission is canceled.
They don't see the point in time and effort to human rate the heavy.
On better news the BFS (upper stage) should be ready for testing in 2019(add a year or two for Elon one), like the old grasshopper. So just short jumps.

Indeed, be nice if the Chinese decide to do a moon landing before though! Hopefully it would kick the space race up another notch.

 

[explicit4u]

Shamelessly stolen from twitter but it never gets old, simply amazing to watch.

 

[Jokester]

Incredible.

 

[lookitsjonno]

Slightly gutted no landing shots of centre core landing but wow, just wow. Best launch of my lifetime!

 

[Spit]

It looks lost to me, if you rewatch you can see there was an impact on the barge.

 

[Glaucus]

sep speed of centre core around 9500kph, that similar to other f9 expendable ones.
i wonder if that's why they tried the 3 engine suicide landing burn into the ocean on the last f9.

 

[Hades]

I'm gobsmacked. This is something I could only dream would be achieved when I was a kid.

 

[Glaucus]

upper stage reignited, apogee now 7000km, 5 hours in the van allen belts before the final burn.

 

[booyaka]

mind officially blown.....

 

[Malevolence]

Shamelessly stolen from twitter but it never gets old, simply amazing to watch.

That is just sexual.

 

[Combat squirrel]

Phwarrrrrrrrrrrr, DAT LANDING !!!

So space X's stock just increased 1000000%

 

[physichull]

I'm gobsmacked. This is something I could only dream would be achieved when I was a kid.

Yup.

mind officially blown.....

Yup.

That is just sexual.

Yup.

 

[physichull]

No official word on the centre core that I can find.

 

[Ceryndrion]

I'm hearing that the centre core ran out of fuel

 

[.:MBK:.]

Probably means it went out in a blaze of glory and shrapnel. Lets just hope the barge is still OK

 

[RSR]

 

[RSR]

That view is something else!

 

[Glaucus]

That view is something else!

especially at -4;30 to -2:40 with the earth n view stunning.

edit - live video time stamps are meaningless.