Space rocket launch tonight

[OldBlueLady]

This has got to be a bit of excitement - right?

1st rocket launch for ages, and 1st commercial launch - and should be visible for us overhead with the naked eye this evening.

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[MK Shrimper]

First launch from America since the final space shuttle launch.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

I saw one launch from Cape Canaveral, whilst staying at nearby Cocoa Beach in 1982. An absolutely breathtaking experience.

 

[Mr Plow]

I visited the Kennedy Space Center a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, awesome place and highly recommended. I'll be watching later OBL.

 

[FiremanBlue]

Has to be one of mans finest achievements into space

 

[Mad Cyril]

If the sky is clear we might see it overhead around 9:55

 

[GNH]

Weather is a cause for concern at the moment but NASA still hopeful it will clear in the next 40 mins, so much so that they have commenced with the fueling process!

Hope all goes well

 

[GNH]

Nooooooooooooo, Mother Nature strikes again

 

[Mad Cyril]

Dirty letdown bastards.

 

[Mr Plow]

Ah well, that's a shame but absolutely the right thing to do.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Hoping to try again on Saturday.

 

[londonblue]

I visited the Kennedy Space Center a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, awesome place and highly recommended. I'll be watching later OBL.

We went April last year. It is a really great place. Our boys even queued up to get the autograph of an astronaut. It turned out to be Jack Lousma who's now retired. When we got home I researched him. It turns out he was the person at mission control that received the famous message, "Houston, we've had a problem".

When we found that out we had the t-shirts he signed cut up and framed along with the photos we took of him with the boys. They now have them hanging in their rooms.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Successful launch yesterday evening, think a lot of us managed to see the International Space Station going by at around 10.15, with the hope of seeing the Dragon chasing just behind - anyone see it?

And anyone who goes to Florida should definitely go to Kennedy, absolutely fantastic place.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I wonder how much pollution a spaceship launch creates?

All those people buying green cars only for it to fund Elon Musk's vanity project that presumably create even more pollution (if it didn't I'd assume we'd use the technology for the aviation industry and make planes greener).

 

[Mad Cyril]

I wonder how much pollution a spaceship launch creates?

All those people buying green cars only for it to fund Elon Musk's vanity project that presumably create even more pollution (if it didn't I'd assume we'd use the technology for the aviation industry and make planes greener).

I am willing to bet not much in the grand scheme of things.

Edit...and I was right.

A Space X falcon heavy launch produces as much CO2 as an average car does in 200 years. I reckon there are 200 cars in my road alone so that is a year of motoring for a single road in Benfleet.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Sorry I couldn't get interested in the 1969 business-let alone this.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Sorry I couldn't get interested in the 1969 business-let alone this.

You must have a very exciting life or a very closed mind.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I am willing to bet not much in the grand scheme of things.

Edit...and I was right.

A Space X falcon heavy launch produces as much CO2 as an average car does in 200 years. I reckon there are 200 cars in my road alone so that is a year of motoring for a single road in Benfleet.

So a single journey in his toy creates as much pollution as 200 cars do in a year? There may be worse offenders but that still sounds like a lot to me.

 

[Mad Cyril]

So a single journey in his toy creates as much pollution as 200 cars do in a year? There may be worse offenders but that still sounds like a lot to me.

It is a lot but they are not going off every day.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

It is a lot but they are not going off every day.

It's a hell of a lot for what serves no real purpose. This is polluting the planet for the future entertainment of a few unimaginably rich dudes. NASA's space missions hoped to enrich human understanding rather than just a billionaire.