Rocket Launch this morning!

[jbb3]

My oldest son got up early and drove over (from Orlando) to watch the launch. Wish I was with him.

I've seen one day and one night launch of the shuttle. Just awesome...

In talking with some of the older locals, they said the old Apollo launches made a shuttle launch seem like a fire cracker.

I can't imagine because I was blown away by the two shuttle launches I saw.

 

[TheCADJockey]

... and back to earth, safe and sound. Two quick trips around the pale blue dot.

Had the engineers here sweating bullets. The only way the world would know we had a part on that craft was if it just went *bloop* into the ocean, never to be seen again. We are all winners today.
:rockin:

 

[jbb3]

NASA Selects SpaceX

SpaceX is taking huge steps. I wouldn't worry about that.

I didn't realize they had already flown to ISS, though unmanned. When NASA canceled the shuttle program, I just stopped watching. Kind of like I did when my stocks went from $110/share down to $1.25. Just couldn't bare to watch any longer...

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah, the old Apollo launches were awesome with 5 Saturn Five engines going at once.I was getting an MRI done around lunch time & missed the splashdown. Wanted to see that part too...While I was inside the machine, David Bowie's song Space Oddity was going through my head,,,

 

[John Done]

SpaceX's Crew Dragon will launch to the ISS on November 14 at 19:49. This will be the second manned flight of the Crew Dragon. The first flight took place on May 30. Then Crew Dragon successfully docked to the ISS and delivered astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to the station. The Crew Dragon launch marks the first manned flight since 2011 from the United States on a locally made spacecraft. For the past ten years, American cosmonauts have been airlifted to the ISS by Russian Soyuz.