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robertvg
Extremely Well-Known Member
Tiny, tiny people
Some things make hard hats seem a bit pointless.
Once the rockets go up
It's here where they come down....
Of Course I Still Love You
Now let's get back to town. ©2016 by Audubon L. Bakewell IV
* More to come later; have to get some work done
* If you don't get the overall reference here, you definitely need to go back to Space Exploration History 101
* You need to mash the preantepenultimate syllable with its predecessor to get that last line to scan properly
It's here where they come down....
Of Course I Still Love You
Now let's get back to town. ©2016 by Audubon L. Bakewell IV
* More to come later; have to get some work done
* If you don't get the overall reference here, you definitely need to go back to Space Exploration History 101
* You need to mash the preantepenultimate syllable with its predecessor to get that last line to scan properly
Ubbe
Member
We've come a long way since WvB and his team let the rockets land wherever they fell. Perhaps not as quickly as the pioneers imagined, but still. I'm quite happy to live today when so much exciting stuff happens, almost to the point that I can ignore the fact that I was too young to experience the moon landings and those heady days.
I presume those are multi-stage hydraulic rams. Does something lock in place to prevent them from retracting once extended?
Yes, there's a locking collet of some sort. One of these failed, presumably due to icing, on a previous attempt.
Ubbe
Member
Curiously they are working on removing the landing legs rather than retracting them for transport:
They have removed the pistons and seem to be ready to remove the legs.
Does anyone know if this has been the normal procedure for the previous landing? And what is the reason behind dismantling it in this fashion?
They have removed the pistons and seem to be ready to remove the legs.
Does anyone know if this has been the normal procedure for the previous landing? And what is the reason behind dismantling it in this fashion?
glhs272
Unnamed plug faced villian
Not sure if it's standard operating procedure or not, but on the last booster return (Orbcomm) they also removed the legs before transporting the stage. Also, when they transport the stage from Texas to the cape the legs are also not attached. Perhaps their road transportation system still can't accommodate transporting the booster with legs attached. When looking at pictures of how the stage was moved to 39A, it looks like the transporter itself might be able to do it. But, perhaps there are still clearance issues on the roads between Port Canaveral and 39A.
That would be profoundly lugubriousGee, and not a single nod to my very favorite 7-syllable word - in post #126.
Just for that, maybe I won't release my other stanzas.....
(super busy week until now)
glhs272
Unnamed plug faced villian
Gee, and not a single nod to my very favorite 7-syllable word - in post #126.
Just for that, maybe I won't release my other stanzas.....
Too clever for me... I had to google it.
Oh, well. As usual, I just can't help myself.
Gather round while I sing to you of Elon Musk
A man whose abilities
dwarf others’ senilities
Call him a genius, he’ll likely be brusque:
“Genius, Schmenius - I’m just Elon Musk”.
A mán who startéd out as South Africán
Then Canada - fínally grads from UPenn
Then on to the Left Coast; spawns PayPal and such
And now the whole world knows our man Elon Musk.
Don’t think of him as a weirdo
He’s not even got a Trump hairdo.
“We need bases on Mars
And self-driving cars
And gigafactORies wherever you are.”
Don’t think of him as a Zero.
In this era a nerd is a hero.
“Learn Physics! First principles! That’s to begin.
Then quantum OTA” he says with a grin.
If he's got a baby
It's the firm called SpaceX
Makes other rockets
As old as T Rex.
Once his rockets go up
On the barge they come down....
Of Course I Still Love You
Now let's get back to town.
If off the Pacific
No need now to drown:
Just Read the Instructions
And head back to town.
©2016 by Audubon L. Bakewell IV. And many, many thanks to my great inspiration, Tom Lehrer
Gather round while I sing to you of Elon Musk
A man whose abilities
dwarf others’ senilities
Call him a genius, he’ll likely be brusque:
“Genius, Schmenius - I’m just Elon Musk”.
A mán who startéd out as South Africán
Then Canada - fínally grads from UPenn
Then on to the Left Coast; spawns PayPal and such
And now the whole world knows our man Elon Musk.
Don’t think of him as a weirdo
He’s not even got a Trump hairdo.
“We need bases on Mars
And self-driving cars
And gigafactORies wherever you are.”
Don’t think of him as a Zero.
In this era a nerd is a hero.
“Learn Physics! First principles! That’s to begin.
Then quantum OTA” he says with a grin.
If he's got a baby
It's the firm called SpaceX
Makes other rockets
As old as T Rex.
Once his rockets go up
On the barge they come down....
Of Course I Still Love You
Now let's get back to town.
If off the Pacific
No need now to drown:
Just Read the Instructions
And head back to town.
©2016 by Audubon L. Bakewell IV. And many, many thanks to my great inspiration, Tom Lehrer
And finally, to assist those who are so unfortunate in your upbringing as to have been deprived of knowing Tom Lehrer, here's your final historical reference:
Reminds me that name of the Dragon V2 seems to be pretty much a direct reference to von Braun's V2 rocket.
Ubbe
Member
-Ohh, would not think so. Is it not just Version 2? A reference to the V2 would be ...unfortunate, right?
You'd think wouldn't you. Recently I've noted they've been calling it simply Dragon 2.
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