Congrad's to Spacex and NASA

[JR]

Live on Discovery Channel DTV 278

And NASA TV (channel 352)..... commercial free of course

 

[DavidC]

And NASA TV (channel 352)..... commercial free of course

Hmmmmm. Ours goes from 351 to 353, no 352 even listed.

 

[SnoKing]

Hmmmmm. Ours goes from 351 to 353, no 352 even listed.

DTV 352 has it. Second stage doing well.

 

[SnoKing]

Stage one landed on drone ship.

 

[Wayne M.]

It’s truly exciting that this country has a space program once again. I imagine SpaceX is probably more of an international effort than I know, but not long ago, NASA and any space exploration effort was pretty much scrapped.

 

[JR]

NASA and any space exploration effort was pretty much scrapped.

Won't be long before they're on the chopping block again

 

[Wayne M.]

Won't be long before they're on the chopping block again

NOT to get political here, but I only have one word.
S M A R T M A T I C
Don’t know what that is? Check into it.
If 45 prevails, SpaceX will prevail too.

 

[endoscott]

My son works at Aerojet on Halls Effect thrusters. They dont outsource ANYTHING to China and they do cutting edge development. It's an amazing field and they are dying for more engineers of all kinds. They still do a lot of work with NASA. If kids could tour the schools that have programs like Engineering Technology, they would be totally jacked...and you have a job offer before you graduate, with a signing bonus. At Western Wash. U. they have 4 or 5 different tracks within E. Tech, electrical, plastics, manufacturing, auto etc. Love at first sight when we visiting the campus and wandered around the shops where kids were building a car from the ground up (half size or something like that), casting, machining, welding, turning, composite fiber, all of it. Very very cool. They were powering the one we looked at with a motorcycle engine, but also were working with hydrogen fuel cells and other kinds of technology. Then they take those cars and compete with other E. Tech programs for performance, fuel efficiency, wind tunnel, etc. Kinda makes you to want to be young again and off to college. Even if we weren't going to Mars or back to the moon, there are huge opportunities in space for communication satellites, low orbit satellites, etc.

 

[DavidC]

Somebody needs to develop a space sanitation service, there's a lot of junk floating around.

 

[endoscott]

For sure! Kind of like Everest base camp, somebody should start cleaning up space. At some point there must be a market for it? Giant space vacuum cleaner I guess. I-space-robot or something like that.

 

[SnoKing]

And now they are launching 100's of internet sats that cross the sky like unit trains.

 

[DavidC]

Like the park system of pack it in,pack it out they should make one's that send it up be responsible for recovery when the useful life expires. Space is out of sight out of mind thing. They are complaining about plastic in the oceans because they can see it, if it sank you may not hear a word. Oh my gosh I am sounding like a tree hugger

 

[SnoKing]

Hard capture complete!

 

[JR]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.clickorlando.com/news/space-news/2021/04/23/after-successful-spacex-launch-rocket-booster-returns-to-light-up-floridas-sky/?outputType=amp

These are some incredible pictures! Exciting stuff.

 

[SnoKing]

Crew 2 docked with a reused capsule and booster rocket. And again landed a Falcon 9 on the barge. Another home run by SpaceX.