First Rocket from Cape Canaveral
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Innocent Bystander wrote:When you read the blurb you can almost hear the stirring patriotic band-music in the background.
Yes but if you pay sharp attention to the actual "rocket" and not the payload section those martial strains you'll be hearing won't even be close to Stars And Stripes Forever.
Daa da da da daa da dadada!
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We have come a long way.
Not sure if this was posted. The youtube vid is thrilling... well to me an aviation/aerospace junkie that is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To-XOPgaGsQ
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008 ... id-it.html
Not sure if this was posted. The youtube vid is thrilling... well to me an aviation/aerospace junkie that is.
SpaceX has made history. Its privately developed rocket has made it into space.
After three failed launches, the company founded by Elon Musk worked all of the bugs out of their Falcon 1 launch vehicles.
The entire spectacle was broadcast live from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Cameras mounted on the spacecraft showed our planet shrinking in the distance and the empty first stage engine falling back to Earth.
As the rocket ascended, cheers rang out during every crucial step of the launch sequence, and at the final stage their headquarters in Hawthorne, California erupted in excitement. (Wired.com viewed the launch over the Internet on SpaceX's live webcast.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To-XOPgaGsQ
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008 ... id-it.html
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Re: First Rocket from Cape Canaveral
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And now, let's turn to Tom Lehrer -- Werner von Braun
Not some of Mr. Lehrer's best, but hey, they can't all be gems.
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