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Offline Goober5000

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Falcon 1 Flight 5 Launches Tonight
on: July 13, 2009, 10:00:34 pm
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1
Webcast: http://www.spacex.com/webcast.php

And wouldn't you know, they're having weather trouble at this launch site (Kwajalein) too, even though it's on the opposite side of the world from Florida! :hopping:

Fortunately, this rocket is merely launching a satellite, not rendezvousing with anything.  So they can pretty much wait out the weather, instead of scrubbing for 24 hours like the shuttle.  Launch time is now 0335 UTC (2335 EDT).
 

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Re: Falcon 1 Flight 5 Launches Tonight
Reply #1 on: July 13, 2009, 10:35:56 pm
T MINUS 30 SECONDS!
 

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Re: Falcon 1 Flight 5 Launches Tonight
Reply #2 on: July 13, 2009, 10:41:14 pm
Launch successful!  Staging also successful.

(Srsly, watch the feed!)
 

Offline portej05

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Re: Falcon 1 Flight 5 Launches Tonight
Reply #3 on: July 13, 2009, 10:44:41 pm
AWESOME
STRONGTEA. Why can't the x86 be sane?
 

Offline redsniper

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Re: Falcon 1 Flight 5 Launches Tonight
Reply #4 on: July 13, 2009, 10:47:52 pm
I watched it.
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The future makes happy, if you make it yourself.
No war; think about happy things."   -WouterSmitssm

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Offline Nuke

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Re: Falcon 1 Flight 5 Launches Tonight
Reply #5 on: July 14, 2009, 01:08:47 am
nasa got pewned
I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

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Re: Falcon 1 Flight 5 Launches Tonight
Reply #6 on: July 14, 2009, 09:19:41 am
Nuke, stop trolling.
 

Offline Liberator

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Re: Falcon 1 Flight 5 Launches Tonight
Reply #7 on: July 14, 2009, 04:16:46 pm
Buzz Aldrin called it right in his Popular Mechanics interview/article.
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So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Offline jdjtcagle

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Re: Falcon 1 Flight 5 Launches Tonight
Reply #8 on: July 14, 2009, 04:25:36 pm
That is very exciting.  But I'm afraid my wife wouldn't let me go.  I will just have to tell her what's what! WOMAN! :nervous:
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