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SpaceX F9v1.1 Launch w/ Dragon: CRS-3 4/18/2014

Discussion in 'SpaceX' started by claytorj, Jan 16, 2014.

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    Here's a relevant comment posted on the NasaSpaceFlight forum a few days ago:
    Other posts there note that the Russian ship may have been there to monitor the earlier NRO reconnaissance i.e. spy satellite launch (or at least to annoy the US as it launched its spy satellite), and had little/no interest in the SpaceX launch.

    So enough about the Russian ship already... ;-)
     
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    SpaceX Jobs @SpaceXJobs

    Ever wonder what it sounds like when hundreds of @SpaceXers celebrate a successful launch? Listen on @SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/1ppfQDB
    Retweeted by SpaceX


    I'd bet that worried "huh?" sound from the crowd around the 8 second mark was when all that dirty water splashed up on the rocket.
     
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    Sounds like Ode to joy
     
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    #205 Discoducky, Apr 28, 2014
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    Cannot wait for this!

     
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    #206 doug, Apr 28, 2014
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    I know this was posted elsewhere, but the first half of this video is relevant to this thread.
     
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    Thanks for posting, hadn't seen this before.
     
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    CRS-3 Dragon Returning to Earth Webcast

    Did anyone else have trouble finding the webcast this morning for CRS-3 Dragon returning to Earth? I never did find it.

    Around 15 minutes or so after it was to have started they finally posted something on the SpaceX webcast page about it being televised over at nasa.gov, but when I went there (45 minutes after original planned start, because I decided to do a load of dishes when I couldn't find anything initially) I didn't find anything. Maybe I had already missed it by then?

    I think they really botched this one. They need to either indicate in advance where you need to go to watch the live broadcast, or they need to do a recording so you can watch it later when you have had time to hunt the internet for it and find it.
     
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    Splashdown confirmed.
     
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    #212 Skotty, May 18, 2014
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    Really? I went to the SpaceX webcast page and there was nothing there. Just a post from the prior day. Maybe you have to log in to see anything? I didn't see any point to logging in at the time, so I didn't bother to set up an account to log in with.

    I think there as a "Follow" button, but "follow" doesn't mean "watch" to me. Was that what I needed to click on? Or did I need to log in? Or what?

    I'm guessing the "Follow" button is what I should have proceeded with. Not exactly intuitive. "Follow" usually signs you up for some news feed that you have to figure out how to unsubscribe from later. It certainly doesn't say "live video webcast" to me. If that was the button, then it should have said "Watch", or "Start", or "Click Here", or "Webcast", or "Start Webcast", or "Begin", or "Connect"... certainly not "Follow".
     
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    Odd that the article suggests doubt as to where the water came from. I'd imagine the water was immediately tested for salinity, dissolved oxygen etc; it could be confirmed as seawater (or something else) in about 10 seconds.
     
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    FYI - split the 1st stage landing pics/video/restoration into its own thread.
     

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