Coolest trip ever

How the he11 do these things land where they do? The whole trip is amazing, but I can't believe they don't land 1000 miles apart.


https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_embedded&v=2aCOyOvOw5c


~mrmiller

S7 mrmiller wrote:How the he11 do these things land where they do? The whole trip is amazing, but I can't believe they don't land 1000 miles apart.

~mrmiller

Because someone smarter than you or me figured all that sh1t out long before launching. It is quite amazing. Great video.

That entire video is amazing to me. I was always "that kid" that loved math, science, and space exploration. I'm in total awe before, during, and after they blow away. The fact that it's going 3,000 Mph is only half of it.

I lived in South Florida and have seen these NASA launches with my own eyes (sad that my kids didn't and now won't). Unfortunately I saw the shuttle Challenger explode in '86 in person too and will never be able to forget that.

dude that was freakin\' win!

Can't pull the video up at work but I'm assuming it's about SpaceX?

Been keeping up on it for a while, was disappointed the live stream didn't work out.
http://hackaday.com/2012/05/23/spacex-finally-launches-scotty-makes-it-to-space/

That was awesome! NASA is amazing.

That's a pretty cool video. I liked the part where you could follow the contrail back down to Florida.

AtrumX wrote:Can't pull the video up at work but I'm assuming it's about SpaceX?

Been keeping up on it for a while, was disappointed the live stream didn't work out.
http://hackaday.com/2012/05/23/spacex-finally-launches-scotty-makes-it-to-space/

No. It was a NASA shuttle launch. The video was a camera attached to the booster rockets. "Ride the booster, up and down in 400 seconds.". It was bad ass.

I thought this was going to be about LSD.

S7 Coolhand wrote:That was awesome! NASA WAS amazing.

fixed that for ya

Anything space is awesome. Was fortunate enough to have the Army nominate me to NASA's Astronaut program 5 times but NASA rejected me every time - learned that in spite of how tough the process is, you still can't figure out what NASA really wants. Guess I didn't have the right stuff, but I never lost my dream to get into space someday.

Air7Cav wrote:Anything space is awesome. Was fortunate enough to have the Army nominate me to NASA's Astronaut program 5 times but NASA rejected me every time - learned that in spite of how tough the process is, you still can't figure out what NASA really wants. Guess I didn't have the right stuff, but I never lost my dream to get into space someday.

Virgin Galactic?

Maybe ... if I hit the lotto to buy a ticket.

AtrumX wrote:

Air7Cav wrote:Anything space is awesome. Was fortunate enough to have the Army nominate me to NASA's Astronaut program 5 times but NASA rejected me every time - learned that in spite of how tough the process is, you still can't figure out what NASA really wants. Guess I didn't have the right stuff, but I never lost my dream to get into space someday.

Virgin Galactic?

Big ass rocket?

Hey, nobody said we had to get you there alive...