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02-06-2018 , 04:57 PM

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domer2

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We're living in the future, boys

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02-06-2018 , 04:57 PM

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phillydilly

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truly amazing.

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02-06-2018 , 05:05 PM

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02-06-2018 , 05:07 PM

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That was incredible

Did the core land safely?

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02-06-2018 , 05:09 PM

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sixfour

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Landing the boosters is so sexy

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02-06-2018 , 05:11 PM

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EnglishLad72

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That was awesome

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02-06-2018 , 05:17 PM

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bobman0330

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Originally Posted by hard2tel

That was incredible

Did the core land safely?

Pretty definitively not. Here is the mission control broadcast announcing that they lost the center core:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=-B_tWbjFIGI

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02-06-2018 , 06:01 PM

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Mark_K

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Live views of Starman

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02-06-2018 , 06:31 PM

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It's not just a huge success story for space exploration, it's also one of the greatest marketing gimmicks in history.

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02-06-2018 , 07:02 PM

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All of the

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02-06-2018 , 07:50 PM

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Mark_K

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Live SpaceX press conference about today's launch. (Starting soon)

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02-06-2018 , 08:08 PM

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Elon said the core hit the water at 300 mph lol. He is hoping the cameras on the drone ship captured the impact because it would be cool footage

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02-06-2018 , 08:09 PM

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Bored Elon Musk on point today:

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02-06-2018 , 08:51 PM

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I keep waiting for reports of Elon Musk being a sexual predator or something. Nobody can be this awesome.

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02-06-2018 , 09:11 PM

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Elon said the core hit the water at 300 mph lol. He is hoping the cameras on the drone ship captured the impact because it would be cool footage

Elon plays Kerbal Space Program with real rockets.

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02-06-2018 , 09:36 PM

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Lol, I said the exact same thing to a friend of mine the other day.

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02-06-2018 , 10:06 PM

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amead

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Truly a national treasure.

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02-06-2018 , 10:07 PM

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Dominic

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This was absolutely thrilling!

******

And I love the call out to A Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy in the car that is now in space!

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02-06-2018 , 10:19 PM

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That was incredible

Did the core land safely?

Apparently the restart fluid ran out for the center core, so only 1 of needed 3 engines relit for the landing and it didn't go well.

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02-06-2018 , 10:34 PM

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It's seriously wonderful to see something so inspiring and hopeful happen, what with all the cluster**** BS going on in the US right now.

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02-07-2018 , 08:19 AM

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It takes an African immigrant to "Make America Great"

Suck it Trump!

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02-07-2018 , 06:11 PM

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A nice summary and wrap up of yesterday's Falcon Heavy launch and solar orbit injection by Scott Manley:

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02-07-2018 , 10:55 PM

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Elon said the core hit the water at 300 mph lol. He is hoping the cameras on the drone ship captured the impact because it would be cool footage

hoping this happened

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02-08-2018 , 12:02 AM

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Snagged from twitter...

Here's a simulation of the latest orbital data for Elon's Tesla:

Simulation of the current orbital data for the Roadster: 0.99 x 1.71 AU x 1.1 deg C3 = 12.0, passes orbit of Mars July 2018, aphelion November 2018

Mars is about 1.5 AU, so it's orbit exceeds Mars orbit by about .21 AU. Earth is 1 AU from the Sun.

The simulator shows the Tesla Roadster making a close pass by the Earth of about 17 LD (LD = distance from earth to the moon) in 2029... I didn't look beyond that date.

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02-08-2018 , 10:59 AM

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FE people must be scratching their heads on this one

Truly inspiring stuff, the main video 21:40 30:00 33:30 shown to a couple friends who had no idea this even happened, blew their minds especially the landing of the boosters

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