SpaceX CRS-12 Pregame Thread

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>>9104331

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Rocket being rolled out to the pad this evening.

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>>9104337
aw, that cute pink scarf, so it wont catch a cold over night

BLOW UP

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>>9104411
No

>>9104331
finally getting to a point where spacex has double digit numbers of launches per year. now they just have to keep it up and they'll be drowning in money.

T - 6 hours

>>9104427

would musk sell if bezos offered a ridiculous amount of money?

>>9104569
probably not
he has a very high potential for profit

under an hour to go

http://www.spacex.com/webcast
Launch in 45 minutes.

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thats a big rocket

LOX load has started

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0 NasaTV is live. they often have different / better views than the spacex one

SpaceX stream is on

wonder what brand of ice-cream they have on board. They mentioned that there was some in the prelaunch conference

we get it F9, you vape

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S C R U B
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>>9104931
don't scare me like that

>no John Insprucker
whyyyyy
we want John

>>9104896
where the fuck did you get this picture full size?

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God speed Elon

>>9104954
>1 sec window today

scary

Jesus...that was a huge fucking explosion, hope everyone's okay

Off it goes

Yayyyyyyyy

Fuck that landing view never gets old

is someone stacking silverware in the background?

>>9104983
the audio is from the cafeteria

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Would you a NASA, /sci/?

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>>9104951
idk maybe reddit? why?

Why did it come in sideways?

>lands rockets
>reuses rockets
>reuses capsules
>pumped and dumped amber heard


How can Bezos even compete? His money isn't going to save him when Musk launches nerve gas weapons at earth from his Martian base.

>>9105001
bezos has to finish his rocket factory first

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWxp6MjgTrP/?taken-by=jeffbezos

can't really build big rockets if you don't first have a factory

>>9104883
>km/h
When will they fix this cancer and bring m/s back?

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Fucking when?

thing I noticed most was the success of the grid fins (not melting lol). Makes me so happy to see little advancements with every launch

>>9105041
these were the old grid fins, actually. Starting soon they'll phase them out for the new ones. Must be a high delay in making the casted titanium ones. It's the world's largest single titanium mold.

>>9105044
oh really? surprised the aluminium held up. Are the new ones entirely titanium or alloy?

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>>9105053
single piece of titanium. World's largest titanium casting, as I said. Cost a pretty penny, and are heavier, but they don't melt!

>>9105053
They were always holding up
Just that they had to repaint them & maybe fix some welds

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so does anyone have insider info? are they really cracking the rapid reusability thing? no repairs no damage?

these threads used to reach bump limit

what happened?

>>9105145
routine

it's just routine now

>>9105055
don't need replacing, don't need repainting. Just a visual inspection and function check.

>>9105032
Never because Vulcan is going to be vaporware. ULA is never going to stop launching the Atlas-V

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so how much cool tech did musk and company loot from the NASA archive?

>>9104896
That's a huge rocket/spacecraft, but for some reason I expected it to be bigger.

>>9104896
It really reminds me of old Soviet space craft which it's launching method.

Does Elon Musk deserve to have the F-H blow up on the pad due to his abandoning Trump?

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SO PHALLIC

>>9105001
>pumped and dumped amber heard

Twice. He even reused her.

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>>9105058
No, some on the toastier higher dv flights were losing whole sections.

>>9105475
They will when Putin blocks sale of RD-180. It is kind of ridiculous that a military launcher depends on foreign engines.

>>9105490
not much, using old techniques would have been more expensive

>>9107935

The Russians want money, and they're proud that their engine is being used by America. They'd sell ULA the RD-180 forever. They're not as petty as the Russia haters project.

Putin has been president how many years? The RD-180 keeps flowing.

But ULA will still replace it with Vulcan whenever a new engine is ready.

>>9104331
I know the launch hasn’t even happened yet. But fuck it. We didn’t Challenger. Get in here.

>>9107994

This thread is old, the launch already happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLxWsYx8dbo

Next one on Aug 24 I think.