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anybody know if the centre booster stuck the landing?

That was the best! Congrats to all that played a part.

Being a test flight I didn't have high hopes.. but that 10 minutes was more entertaining than anything Hollywood has put out lately!

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Originally Posted by Chris at Pelican Parts (Post 9916108)

I agree -amazeballs

That was incredible! The side stages landing in tandem like that, hard to believe that’s even real! Impressive stuff!

I liked this part! (I'm a wee bit jealous) Well done! :)

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The Starman live view is up- not sure for how long though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

Incredible stuff. Love the live view of SpaceX, especially since I have toured their facility. I don’t necessarily agree with Musk and his decisions with Tesla but I love how he is pushing the envelope in space exploration.

Awesome. Just awesome. Those boosters returning and landing in tandem looked like something out of a Japanese science fiction movie. So cool to watch.

Amazing! I totally felt like I was watching a science fiction movie!

So very proud of all these hard working people to pull this off.

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Originally Posted by red-beard (Post 9914711)

Just, why? Seems both stupid and dangerous. We have enough floating orbital debris without adding a car

I don't think the debris will be any close to us at all.

You know the most impressive thing about all of this? A private company is kicking butt - that includes NASA and the rest of the countries around the world. If/when there is a chance of some kind of profit return (think raw materials), things will happen even faster as other companies jump in, form consortiums, etc.

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Originally Posted by Chris at Pelican Parts (Post 9916358)

The Starman live view is up- not sure for how long though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

Very cool. Thanks for link.

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“You didn’t build that”.

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Originally Posted by Sunroof (Post 9916895)

here's another.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1518010090.jpg

redefines Sunroof! (see what I did there?)

Really a real Tesla?

Fellas,

Have you questioned whether that car is a real Tesla? or a conditioned mock up? Reason:
I been in aerospace for 35 years and worked on many things. I do know something about the hostilities of exposure in space. Things are real ugly out there, and hard to believe that that would be a conventional car. To start, the delta t is 400-500 hundred degrees between sunlight and shadow then a negative 200 below. Destructive cosmic radiation, gamma, alpha. Ultra violet light that would burn the paint off of it probably within hours. The interior would melt and unless it was in a Faraday cage, the electronics would be fried instantly. Look how they built the early space capsules out of invariable materials with expansion reliefs and corrugations to control thermal expansion. Just a thought.

The Rocket booster return was incredible and had me up late trying to figure out how that would even be possible carrying extra fuel, doing an about face at 16000 + mph and simultaneously landing a 100 foot cylinder with a tripod vertically. That was the most impressive feature of the launch IMO.

Bob