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SpaceX First Time Falcon Heavy Test
Bryan See:
I've just read a news article on WIRED saying that SpaceX successfully test fired its long-awaited Falcon Heavy rocket. Does anyone hear this?
Luis Dias:
Yes. Musk himself confirmed it. Launch is next week.
Trivial Psychic:
I believe the report said that he hopes to launch as early as next week. It's not a done deal. That said, I am looking forward to it. I do doubt however, that he will be able to meet a claim me made about this time last year, that he will be able to send a crew into (I believe) a free-return trajectory pass around the moon, by the end of THIS year, using a Falcon Heavy and a human-rated Dragon capsule. It would be awesome if he could, but since the Dragon has yet to perform a crewed flight, and Musk himself indicated that this first Falcon Heavy launch is likely to be a spectacular (and hopefully non-destructive) failure. Be that as it may, I am still hopeful that that roaster can be recovered from its orbit some time in the distant future and brought back to Earth as a priceless antique.
My older brother got me on to following SpaceX. He kinda gave me the run-down of the various corporations competing for space access.
666maslo666:
First Dragon crewed flight is now scheduled for December 2018. It is safe to say that there will be no crewed flight around the Moon this year.
Next year is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. A very sad anniversary considering we have been stuck in low orbit since the end of Apollo. Dragon circumlunar flight should make it a lot better.
Trivial Psychic:
WOW! Talk about your successful test. The only thing that didn't go absolutely to plan was the current unaccounted status of the core booster. Seeing those side boosters perform their simultaneous landing was just awesome though, and the live feeds of the Tessla with Starman in the driver seat with the rapidly receding Earth is just surreal. I believe the next hurdle is the relighting of the second stage after clearing the Van Allen belts.
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