MSNBC is covering it live like the moon landing. All of it extremely positive. They covered the other two tourist flights after the fact with far less enthusiasm. They also talked up other things SpaceX is doing.
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MSNBC is covering it live like the moon landing. All of it extremely positive. They covered the other two tourist flights after the fact with far less enthusiasm. They also talked up other things SpaceX is doing.
I gave, least I could do for all the amazing energy Elon and teams at SpaceX and Tesla have pumped into being alive and human the last 10 years. If not for that, we'd spend all our day talking about Covid...
Yeah. CNN has been doing live updates for hours too. All the major news outlets have articles on their front pages. Lots of great coverage, well beyond what I was expecting!
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Lucky location for capturing Inspiration 4 this evening in Charleston, SC. With the sun highlighting plumes of exhaust, both stages nearly transit the waxing gibbous moon. The video appears to begin right after stage separation. From a profile perspective, it's quite breathtaking to observe how much additional range and altitude that first stage booster achieves before reentry.
Yes I noticed that too in the telemetry. This launch took the booster to 175 km of apogee, whereas a typical Dragon cargo launch will be up to 125 km. I wonder if it is because this one goes to a much higher orbit than ISS?
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I would hope other teams don’t rush launch before they are ready and squared away. Do not want to see the effort set back.
I read a year or so back that SpaceX had a storage problem because more first stages landed and were ready for reuse than they had anticipated. They were expecting a higher loss rate.
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