Thread: Space X Falcon Heavy Launch soon!!

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Does Alaska have a car in space? I didn't know that.

Hmmm you might want to rethink that statement

watching those two boosters land together was the best TV since 1969....

Hook, Line and sinker

That was incredible

One of my friends works at space X. Workers there are young intelligent and passionat. I just wish there are more companies like this on our planet.

An I wish Australia has a company like space X.but I don't think it's possible

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

watching those two boosters land together was the best TV since 1969....

If nothing else that alone is an amazing achievement, not sure what NASA used to do with the old boosters but after a dip in the ocean i guess they were only good as museum pieces.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

If nothing else that alone is an amazing achievement, not sure what NASA used to do with the old boosters but after a dip in the ocean i guess they were only good as museum pieces.

On the space shuttle, they would recover, refurbish and reuse them.
The Orbiter would also be refurbished and reused.

Originally Posted by BMKal

So ............ in this day and age when we're all supposed to be doing our bit towards reducing pollution, and when we quite regularly see articles about the amount of "space junk" out there .......... when some egotistical ****** with a lot of money launches a car into orbit for no other purpose than to leave a monument to himself, we are supposed to be impressed ????

I'm afraid it takes a bit more than that to impress me.

It's in a solar, rather than earth orbit, so it won't add to the space junk around earth.

Although I do think it should have been a Ford Prefect with a '42' licence plate

Isn't it heading for deep space?