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

[Zefan]

Yes you missed it

Well it was the usual "not there yet, not there yet, not there yet, loss of signal, poof it's there!", pretty standard for drone ship landings.

Also, for those asking, from my reading it looks like it'll be visible for a handful of minutes on the south horizon starting at 22:15 local time heading West -> East.

https://www.meteorwatch.org/crew-dragon-watch-the-launch-then-see-it-fly-over-uk/

 

[sigma]

I take it flat Earthers have all found something else to do tonight?

Heh, that's what I was thinking although they could still say it's a disc we're seeing.

 

[Entai]

I take it flat Earthers have all found something else to do tonight?

Didnt you know it's all fake, filmed from Hollywood with special effects, no one is in the rocket

 

[sigma]

Lots of American back-patting, lol. Politics finding its way in as well.

 

[Tombstone]

That was pretty cool it has to be said

 

[Flibster]

How much brown nosing can he do?!

Trump appointee I'm guessing?

[edit] Why, yes. Yes he is....

 

[.:MBK:.]

Gotta make sure the $$$ keeps coming in

 

[sigma]

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Might see it at 22:15 then?

 

[sigma]

How much brown nosing can he do?!

Trump appointee I'm guessing?

I turned it off.

 

[adam cool dude]

That was pretty cool it has to be said

Anti climax tbh after watching a shuttle launch.

 

[robfosters]

Didnt you know it's all fake, filmed from Hollywood with special effects, no one is in the rocket

It’s true. It’s actually made out of Lego

 

[Andrew_McP]

I didn't watch it live. So much has gone wrong recently, I didn't want to jinx it by watching.

I'm going to say one thing though... those suits. Is it me or do they look like something out of Toy Story rather than NASA? Maybe I'm just too old and think they should all look like Neil Armstrong.

 

[sigma]

Anti climax tbh after watching a shuttle launch.

For it to be an anti-climax, what else were you expecting?

 

[C.R.A.Z.Y]

The feed mysteriously went just before it landed and then it suddenly appeared on the barge/ship, tin foil hat to the ready!

The landing burn can interfere with signal

 

[Armageus]

Absolutely amazing - just watched it with my wife and even she was totally interested

 

[Tombstone]

Anti climax tbh after watching a shuttle launch.

I've seen both, one in person (from a distance of course) , frankly I find every manned launch pretty cool

 

[C.R.A.Z.Y]

But here it is safe and sound and upright on 'Of Course I Still Love You'

 

[Tombstone]

I didn't watch it live. So much has gone wrong recently, I didn't want to jinx it by watching.

I'm going to say one thing though... those suits. Is it me or do they look like something out of Toy Story rather than NASA? Maybe I'm just too old and think they should all look like Neil Armstrong.

I really like the suits, its about time we started to get suits which look more like the sorts of suits we see in Sci-fi movies and shows than the Michelin Man

 

[Zefan]

Anti climax tbh after watching a shuttle launch.

Except when that was happening, it was relatively routine compared to this, which is truly a milestone in the road to the actual future of human space exploration. We were on a downward trajectory then, we're back on the up now.

 

[BubbySoup]

The sequinned dinosaur floating by was the highlight for me