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

[Macro]

Mankind really needs to do more of this and less trying to kill each other

 

[Freakbro]

Goosebumps

 

[Skillmister]

Mankind really needs to do more of this and less trying to kill each other

Absolutely.

Looking forward to seeing what this thing finds out

 

[Malevolence]

First image is back.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Amazing stuff.

 

[Macro]

Absolutely incredible.

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” Oscar Wilde.

 

[Minusorange]

First image is back.

Why is the sky blue on this one before they put their filter on ?

The narrator even says blue sky on the live stream

 

[sigma]

Why is the sky blue on this one before they put their filter on ?

The narrator even says blue sky on the live stream

CGI/green screen

/tinfoilhat

 

[Minusorange]

CGI/green screen

/tinfoilhat

I know it's really due to brightness/contrast of the screen and the camera being used to record it, because the program background goes from blue to green, I wouldn't imagine a filter would change the whole screen as opposed to just the image, some though will argue it's fake

 

[gizmoy2k]

Its sunny in Nevada today........??

 

[Malevolence]

 

[SPG]

Is that a brush mark in the sand....

I know it still has a lens cap/cover on, but man camera resolution on MARS robots sucks, maybe that is to take away the fact its really Nevada

Cant really get excited about this mission, the cube satellites was more interesting. However if the mole finds water and a giant tentacle shoots out, shakes the rover off its legs, it would be a bonus.

Just finish the James Webb and get it launched already along with that MARS mission for detecting the existence of life Dead or Alive.

 

[Flibster]

CRS-16 Had a great launch.

1st stage recovery and landing at the Cape... not so good.

Started to wobble and spin after re entry burn and ended up doing a water landing instead of on the pad.

SpaceX cut the video feed, but someone wad livestreaming on twitch.

https://clips.twitch.tv/CleverSpineyEggPrimeMe

 

[bliss]

Incredible that after all that it still pretty much landed.

 

[Trig]

I was wathcing it live and just as it started to get interesting they cut away from the Stage 1 video, will Youtube it later..

 

[Trappi$t]

I've a bad feeling about the James Webb, the deployment is SO complicated, it really makes me wonder if it was the best way to do it. Naturally not being a NASA engineer my opinion is worthless, but to the space "layman", I wonder why it could not have been launched into Earth orbit, test "deployed" with all the bits, then somehow shot off into the lagrange point after verification everything was OK.

It is a monumental risk. Fingers crossed though, as it will be the best insight mankind as EVER had in the history of civilisation.

 

[kedge]

Looks similar to the pictures taken by viking 1 July 1976.

 

[Minusorange]

almost 50 years ago, pretty impressive feat all things considered, even more impressive that the Saturn V is still mans most powerful machine (hopefully SLS will work and beat it though)

 

[Deleted User 234324]

Went on a bit of a spacey stuff binge past few days, the race between Musk (SpaceX) and Bezos (Blue Origin) could be really interesting in the next few years, although BE still need to actually launch into orbit yet, but the BE-4 engine is incredible.

What I would really like to know though is how come very little has been done to move to linear aerospike engines which are superior and would allow SSTO vehicles. I know the X-33 was going to be aerospike but that was canned 17 years ago!!

 

[Orionaut]

almost 50 years ago, pretty impressive feat all things considered, even more impressive that the Saturn V is still mans most powerful machine (hopefully SLS will work and beat it though)

Strictly speaking the Soviet N1 was considerably more powerful, but since it never managed to complete a successful launch one might argue that it didn't count.