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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Live Thread (05/22/2012) 03:44 EDT)
05/21/12 | Kevin Davis

Posted on 05/21/2012 4:47:45 PM PDT by KevinDavis

Good luck again.. I'm sure they will make it..



TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iss; nasa; newtwasright; space; spacex
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Didn’t get to drive over so had to watch from my home a hundred miles away, just lost sight a minute ago with my naked eye. Good launch!


121 posted on 05/22/2012 12:53:49 AM PDT by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

2nd stage engine shutdown. Dragon sep. Orbit successful!


122 posted on 05/22/2012 12:54:44 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Awesome looking launch on a perfectly clear night from 40 miles north of the Cape. That sucker was moving! Just got the sound a minute or two ago.


123 posted on 05/22/2012 12:55:36 AM PDT by Textide
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Dragon solar array deployed!


124 posted on 05/22/2012 12:56:20 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

And to all a good night...


125 posted on 05/22/2012 12:56:35 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1217 of our ObamaVacation from reality [and what dark chill/is gathering still/before the storm])
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Solar Array Deployed


126 posted on 05/22/2012 12:56:42 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Great news and the panels.


127 posted on 05/22/2012 12:56:57 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: KevinDavis

They’re really really happy. I’m glad for them.


128 posted on 05/22/2012 12:57:07 AM PDT by wastedyears ("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Massive roar from the SpaceX crowd on the deployment! And why not!


129 posted on 05/22/2012 12:58:29 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: null and void

Congratulations to the SpaceX Team - great job!


130 posted on 05/22/2012 12:58:44 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Ya got to love SpaceX launch control center as their wearing shorts, levis, and t-shirts...


131 posted on 05/22/2012 12:59:52 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: hoagy62

Now it’s time for the Dragon to catch up to the ISS and do the work necessary to dock with it.


132 posted on 05/22/2012 1:00:41 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: brityank

I was holding my breath on launch...lol


133 posted on 05/22/2012 1:01:24 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Good night to all!


134 posted on 05/22/2012 1:01:36 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

G’night


135 posted on 05/22/2012 1:03:17 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Yep...I had just gotten up to view the launch as my wife went to bed. Long story short, she’d just came home from the hospital with our youngest son. He needed stitches in his forehead from a fall. He’s okay. I can go back to bed now.


136 posted on 05/22/2012 1:05:35 AM PDT by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Good night indeed - a very good night!

Cheers, catch up later.


137 posted on 05/22/2012 1:06:15 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: brityank

CONGRATS SPACEX! Falcon 9 launch successful;

Dragon in orbit!


138 posted on 05/22/2012 1:10:44 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

Just got back on the internet....congratulations on #3 Space-X.


139 posted on 05/22/2012 1:21:37 AM PDT by Puckster
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To: JRandomFreeper

Well, if you narrow the definition to just “putting government and commercial satellites in orbit,” what you write is true. And understandably so, since that is where the revenue stream is currently pointed.

My vision of the “commercialization of space” is quite a bit broader and envisions orbiting resorts and long-term residences, medical facilities, commercial manufacturing plants, on-orbit services (including the removal of space junk), tranfer depots for passengers and cargoes bound for the Moon and beyond, exchanges with increasngly self-sufficient settlements on the Moon and Mars, etc.

All that is going to take awhile.


140 posted on 05/22/2012 2:02:26 AM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined Effort is the hammer that Human Will uses to forge Tomorrow on the anvil of Today.)
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