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Falcon 9 Launch

Bubba - 6-8-2019 at 11:30 AM

https://ksby.com/news/local-news/2019/06/08/falcon-9-launch-...

David K - 6-8-2019 at 11:46 AM

Thanks for that. :bounce::light::cool:

Mother of Dragons - 6-8-2019 at 12:25 PM

I might try to watch that. I keep missing all the other launches although they seem to reschedule them endlessly.

Bubba, I’m central coast too😊

fishbuck - 6-8-2019 at 12:34 PM

Elon and his people know how to get something done!
He got all the best Rocketmen that got layed off by by Boeing, Lockheed, NorthrupGrumman, etc. and cheap too I hear...
But look what they did...

Mother of Dragons - 6-8-2019 at 12:37 PM

Quote: Originally posted by fishbuck  
Elon and his people know how to get something done!
He got all the best Rocketmen that got layed off by by Boeing, Lockheed, NorthrupGrumman, etc. and cheap too I hear...
But look what they did...

My friend’s husband worked for him as an engineer. He was floating on air for a year and only talked Elon and Tesla.
He quit though, I’ll have to find out why but he doesn’t talk about him anymore.
He sure launches a lot of rockets! And I keep missing them. Dang it

fishbuck - 6-8-2019 at 12:40 PM

He must of quit drinking the coolaid...;)

Mother of Dragons - 6-8-2019 at 12:55 PM

Quote: Originally posted by fishbuck  
He must of quit drinking the coolaid...;)

Man was he drinking massive amounts of kool aid.

I just asked him why he quit and he said he got an offer at Livermore National Lab and it is closer to their house and way better benefits.



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LancairDriver - 6-8-2019 at 02:39 PM

Tom Mueller is part owner of Space X and chief propulsion engineer and designer of their Dragon rocket engine at Space X. I knew him when he previously had worked at TRW. He is a hands on guy who has previously worked in Idaho as a logger when going to school. He later built the most powerful amateur built rocket engine in his garage that got a lot of attention. A very sharp individual. Space X is on track to be certified by NASA for transport to the Space Station.

Mother of Dragons - 6-8-2019 at 04:52 PM

Thanks LancairDriver, sounds like a good guy

SFandH - 6-8-2019 at 05:37 PM

I've read that Space X makes 80% of the parts that compose their rockets, as opposed to NASA who buys all the parts from 100s of contractors, all of which add overhead and profit to the price. Musk's goal is to do what NASA does at 1/10 the price. The landing and reuse of the rocket's first stage is just a phenomenal achievement and a huge cost saver. Elon Musk is in the league of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. All of his patents created during the development of the Tesla electric car are open for anyone to use and I bet every major automaker is using them.

Bubba - 6-9-2019 at 06:30 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
I might try to watch that. I keep missing all the other launches although they seem to reschedule them endlessly.

Bubba, I’m central coast too😊


Gods Country!

LancairDriver - 6-9-2019 at 10:13 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Bubba  
Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
I might try to watch that. I keep missing all the other launches although they seem to reschedule them endlessly.

Bubba, I’m central coast too😊


Gods Country!


That area truely is God’s country. Now, if you can only keep the hordes from LA out.

surfhat - 6-9-2019 at 10:37 AM

I watched one of his rockets go up from a Leucadia local day use park around sunset a couple of years ago.

It was spectacular. I watched the rocket go vertical close to the ground climb higher and higher until it started to angle toward the southwest when the first stage detached.

There was a light show like no other that flowed around the front of the nose cone and back in an almost whale shape trailing behind the rocket.

As it climbed higher and higher in the southwest sky the second stage could be seen detaching itself.

After that it headed up and out toward the sw horizon before disappearing.

The flow off the nose cone and trailing behind the rocket in that after sunset hour was like nothing I had ever seen.

Way to Elon. A man for the ages he is. It is just his kind of entrepreneurial spirit that can solve many problems thought impossible. Landing and saving the stage rockets is something to behold.

fishbuck - 6-9-2019 at 11:38 AM


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fishbuck - 6-9-2019 at 11:45 AM

The Delta rocket was super reliable and we (Boeing etc) built hundreds and maybe thousands. They were very expensive.
I believe except for Delta IV Heavy it is out of production.
Elon drank Boeings milkshake on this one...

David K - 6-9-2019 at 01:36 PM

Dec. 2017, seen from San Marcos, CA:





Mother of Dragons - 6-9-2019 at 05:09 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Bubba  
Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
I might try to watch that. I keep missing all the other launches although they seem to reschedule them endlessly.

Bubba, I’m central coast too😊


Gods Country!


Where do you watch from Bubba?

surfhat - 6-9-2019 at 05:49 PM

You got it David. Great pic. Thanks. What a light show it was.

David K - 6-10-2019 at 07:41 AM

Quote: Originally posted by surfhat  
You got it David. Great pic. Thanks. What a light show it was.

That one was pretty cool, huh? Seeing the staging and the first stage dropping away, still glowing... Moving to Florida to see rocket launches is not needed!

Sixty years ago....

AKgringo - 6-10-2019 at 08:30 AM

There were a few satellites in orbit, but no astronauts yet! Partly because the swamp cooler of that era didn't really do much for the back bedroom where my brothers and I slept, my mom let us set up beds in the back yard and 'sky watch' on hot summer nights!

In addition to satellites, we were surrounded by air force bases, so we saw a lot of things that I still can't explain, but that discussion would be going way off topic.

One night my older brother woke me up claiming that he saw a rocket blow up! The kid next door had joined us that night, so he sided with me in ridiculing my brother's hallucination/dream, and we went back to sleep.

Son of a gun, the next day's news was talking about a failed launch from Vandenberg (which we were not aware even existed) and some how, he saw it! We were far north of there in Nevada County at the time, so either the rocket was way off course, or remote viewing is possible!

Bubba - 6-10-2019 at 11:16 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
Quote: Originally posted by Bubba  
Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
I might try to watch that. I keep missing all the other launches although they seem to reschedule them endlessly.

Bubba, I’m central coast too😊


Gods Country!


Where do you watch from Bubba?


I'm a GC so sometimes my work coincides with a project I may be doing in Lompoc, if it does then it's awesome. But I have also watched them from Pismo, Nipomo and AG if there is no Marine layer. I have some video of one I took from Nipomo last year at about 5-6 am, still pretty dark out, no Marine layer but it was still pretty spectacular from that distance. I will see if I can post it here.

Mother of Dragons - 6-10-2019 at 11:22 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Bubba  
Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
Quote: Originally posted by Bubba  
Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
I might try to watch that. I keep missing all the other launches although they seem to reschedule them endlessly.

Bubba, I’m central coast too😊


Gods Country!


Where do you watch from Bubba?


I'm a GC so sometimes my work coincides with a project I may be doing in Lompoc, if it does then it's awesome. But I have also watched them from Pismo, Nipomo and AG if there is no Marine layer. I have some video of one I took from Nipomo last year at about 5-6 am, still pretty dark out, no Marine layer but it was still pretty spectacular from that distance. I will see if I can post it here.

Thank you. I was thinking Pismo would be a good place to watch from but the marine layer does throw a wrench in it.

fishbuck - 6-11-2019 at 11:43 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
Quote: Originally posted by fishbuck  
A little off topic but same ballpark..

I was offered and rejected a Vandenberg Rocket Inspector job.
I think we were still McDonnell Douglas at the time.
I visited the Delta 2 launch pad.
It's on a bluff 100 yards or so from the Ocean. A half hour drive from the Base Gate.
I could hear sea lions barking on the rocks below
An incredibly remote and beautiful place.
An alarm went off while I was there and something had a hydrozine gas leak while they were running a launch simulation.
All the engineers came running out of the buildings and we all had to evacuate to a perimeter.
I would have been up on the Rocket in the gantry enclosure checking for leaks... probably in a pressure line air mask and with a sniffer...
I was escorted back to my car by the QA boss and told him I'd think about...

It was cool but I made the right decision to ride out Long Beach and was blessed with a transfer to Everett Wa on the Boring 777-300ER.
I would have been layed off from the Rocket job probably with no place to go.
And I had it made at Long Beach having been there over 20 years.




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Bubba - 6-12-2019 at 06:33 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
Quote: Originally posted by Bubba  
Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
Quote: Originally posted by Bubba  
Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
I might try to watch that. I keep missing all the other launches although they seem to reschedule them endlessly.

Bubba, I’m central coast too😊


Gods Country!


Where do you watch from Bubba?


I'm a GC so sometimes my work coincides with a project I may be doing in Lompoc, if it does then it's awesome. But I have also watched them from Pismo, Nipomo and AG if there is no Marine layer. I have some video of one I took from Nipomo last year at about 5-6 am, still pretty dark out, no Marine layer but it was still pretty spectacular from that distance. I will see if I can post it here.

Thank you. I was thinking Pismo would be a good place to watch from but the marine layer does throw a wrench in it.



Yes, Pismo is always touch and go

Bubba - 6-12-2019 at 06:35 AM

https://ksby.com/news/local-news/2019/06/11/spacex-falcon-9-...

David K - 6-12-2019 at 07:02 AM

7:17 is 15 min away!

https://www.spacex.com/webcast

[Edited on 6-12-2019 by David K]

Mother of Dragons - 6-12-2019 at 07:07 AM

7 mins countdown



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Mother of Dragons - 6-12-2019 at 07:12 AM

Nice fishbuck, looks like you had a great career.

Launch Photos from Live Covearge

David K - 6-12-2019 at 07:39 AM

In these 5 images are:
1) Launch, above the fog bank
2) View looking down from rocket
3) same view
4) Split screen, stage 1 dropping back to Vandenburg/ stage 2 engine
5) Stage 1 camera nearing fog/ air based camera as stage 1 drops to a perfect landing...

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David K - 6-12-2019 at 05:45 PM

I guess you had to be there...? lol

Mother of Dragons - 6-12-2019 at 06:29 PM

Great pics of Earth. Thinking of sending them to my flat earther friend, lol


[Edited on 6-13-2019 by Mother of Dragons]

Bubba - 6-12-2019 at 07:01 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
Great pics of Earth. Thinking of sending them to my flat earther friend, lol


[Edited on 6-13-2019 by Mother of Dragons]


I'm in Houston right now and missed it all but make sure to let your flat earther friend know they can buy hand held lasers at HD that mark measurements down to the inch so if they hear it go beep beep, just turn around. God bless their lil heart. lol

AKgringo - 6-12-2019 at 07:17 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
Great pics of Earth. Thinking of sending them to my flat earther friend, lol


[Edited on 6-13-2019 by Mother of Dragons]



The earth is not flat like a tortilla. It is more like a pizza with a thick crust that keeps all the water from running off the edge. All the continents and islands are like extra toppings! :yes:

Mother of Dragons - 6-13-2019 at 07:10 AM

Quote: Originally posted by Bubba  
Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
Great pics of Earth. Thinking of sending them to my flat earther friend, lol


[Edited on 6-13-2019 by Mother of Dragons]


I'm in Houston right now and missed it all but make sure to let your flat earther friend know they can buy hand held lasers at HD that mark measurements down to the inch so if they hear it go beep beep, just turn around. God bless their lil heart. lol

Oh there’s no changing her mind. She sends me pictures of lakes all the time to prove to me that flat lake photo equals flat earth.
We watched Behind the Curve, it’s on Netflix, and they set up a laser experiment that failed.
I’m open to discussing her theories(no gravity, fluoride is a crime against humanity, no moon landing, world is ruled by satanists(mostly true), the powers that be are starting the wildfires, no global warming, chem trails...etc...) with her but I don’t believe most of them.

[Edited on 6-13-2019 by Mother of Dragons]

Mother of Dragons - 6-13-2019 at 07:15 AM

Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  
Quote: Originally posted by Mother of Dragons  
Great pics of Earth. Thinking of sending them to my flat earther friend, lol


[Edited on 6-13-2019 by Mother of Dragons]



The earth is not flat like a tortilla. It is more like a pizza with a thick crust that keeps all the water from running off the edge. All the continents and islands are like extra toppings! :yes:


She says there is an ice wall going around the flat earth holding the water in.
I showed her a pic of The Wall from Game of Thrones and she said that was exactly what she imagines.
Maybe the flat earthers watched GOT and got the idea?
If they include dragons into their theory then I’m switching teams.
The Wall


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