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Edited Date/Time 10/23/2020 5:52pm
Got the nosecone mounted. Hopefully get at 15km hop by next week.












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ocscottie 10/22/2020 6:44pm
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I fucking love that thing, its so Buck Rogers.

btw Void, please keep us updated!!
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Sully 10/22/2020 7:37pm
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That looks so much better than without it. When they were doing the initial test flights back and forth between the launch/landing pad, the damn thing looked like a flying water heater.
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Shiny.
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tcannon521 10/22/2020 8:17pm
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Sully wrote:
That looks so much better than without it. When they were doing the initial test flights back and forth between the launch/landing pad, the damn thing...
That looks so much better than without it. When they were doing the initial test flights back and forth between the launch/landing pad, the damn thing looked like a flying water heater.
Keep in mind they are testing/building it in stages. The final ship with booster will be about 400’ tall.

It was cool to see them succeed at making a silo fly during the first tests. 😂

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Falcon 10/23/2020 9:18am
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I feel like I was born in the wrong time. I figure with average life expectancy, I have about 30-35 years left to live, and by then we'll have sub-orbital space travel as an everyday thing, perhaps a colony on the Moon or maybe Mars, and regular people can be astronauts. Of course, I'll be too old to handle the stress of launch (probably).
Maybe they'll build a space elevator...
Or scramjet lift vehicles that fly like airplanes...
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XXVoid MainXX 10/23/2020 11:02am
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I just hope I get to see the full thing fly successfully to the moon and back before I die. The rate they are making progress there's a good chance.
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Falcon 10/23/2020 11:47am
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XXVoid MainXX wrote:
I just hope I get to see the full thing fly successfully to the moon and back before I die. The rate they are making progress...
I just hope I get to see the full thing fly successfully to the moon and back before I die. The rate they are making progress there's a good chance.
NASA mission in 2024: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-publishes-artemis-plan-to-land-….

(Or did you mean the Space X version, specifically?)
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XXVoid MainXX 10/23/2020 11:51am
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Yeah, I meant Starship. But SLS will be fun too, if they can make the schedule (questionable).
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lestat 10/23/2020 11:56am
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Falcon wrote:
I feel like I was born in the wrong time. I figure with average life expectancy, I have about 30-35 years left to live, and by...
I feel like I was born in the wrong time. I figure with average life expectancy, I have about 30-35 years left to live, and by then we'll have sub-orbital space travel as an everyday thing, perhaps a colony on the Moon or maybe Mars, and regular people can be astronauts. Of course, I'll be too old to handle the stress of launch (probably).
Maybe they'll build a space elevator...
Or scramjet lift vehicles that fly like airplanes...
Too young to be an explorer on earth , too old to be an explorer in space . Timing is everything apparently .
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GeorgiePorgie 10/23/2020 1:20pm
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Saw my first batch of space force soldiers this week. They’re like mini celebrities, everyone just pounds then with questions!

I’m 33 and I bet I see a Fixed structure space station on the moon or mars before I die if I can Squeeze another 60 outta this rock.
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Falcon 10/23/2020 2:59pm
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Falcon wrote:
I feel like I was born in the wrong time. I figure with average life expectancy, I have about 30-35 years left to live, and by...
I feel like I was born in the wrong time. I figure with average life expectancy, I have about 30-35 years left to live, and by then we'll have sub-orbital space travel as an everyday thing, perhaps a colony on the Moon or maybe Mars, and regular people can be astronauts. Of course, I'll be too old to handle the stress of launch (probably).
Maybe they'll build a space elevator...
Or scramjet lift vehicles that fly like airplanes...
lestat wrote:
Too young to be an explorer on earth , too old to be an explorer in space . Timing is everything apparently .
We live in a time where people still die from the flu and cancer, there is a pollution crisis of fairly massive proportions, and fossil fuels clearly aren't the long-term best source for energy. I wonder what people will think about this century, 200 years from now? "Wow, how did those heathens even survive?," or "Whoa, they had it good?" I hope it's the former.
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tcannon521 10/23/2020 5:52pm
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Falcon wrote:
We live in a time where people still die from the flu and cancer, there is a pollution crisis of fairly massive proportions, and fossil fuels...
We live in a time where people still die from the flu and cancer, there is a pollution crisis of fairly massive proportions, and fossil fuels clearly aren't the long-term best source for energy. I wonder what people will think about this century, 200 years from now? "Wow, how did those heathens even survive?," or "Whoa, they had it good?" I hope it's the former.
It’ll be the same way we look at people that lived without refrigeration, HVAC and smoked cigarettes today.

The other big pollutant not talked about nearly enough is our dependence on plastic. The amount of single use plastic that isn’t recycled is mind blowing. I bet post COVID-19 studies will show our plastic consumption increased 25 to 50 percent during the pandemic.

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