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Falcon 9 Launch
https://ksby.com/news/local-news/2019/06/08/falcon-9-launch-...
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Thanks for that.   
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Mother of Dragons
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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😊
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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...
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
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Mother of Dragons
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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...
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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
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fishbuck
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He must of quit drinking the coolaid...
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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Mother of Dragons
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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.
[Edited on 6-8-2019 by Mother of Dragons]
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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.
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Thanks LancairDriver, sounds like a good guy
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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.
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Gods Country!
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That area truely is God’s country. Now, if you can only keep the hordes from LA out.
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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.
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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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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...
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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Dec. 2017, seen from San Marcos, CA:
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Mother of Dragons
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Where do you watch from Bubba?
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You got it David. Great pic. Thanks. What a light show it was.
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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!
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