SpaceX CRS-12 Pregame Thread

Launch in T minus 10 hours 30 minutes

Post pictures, videos, and memes ITT.

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Rocket being rolled out to the pad this evening.

aw, that cute pink scarf, so it wont catch a cold over night

BLOW UP

No

finally getting to a point where spacex has double digit numbers of launches per year. now they just have to keep it up and they'll be drowning in money.

T - 6 hours

would musk sell if bezos offered a ridiculous amount of money?

probably not
he has a very high potential for profit

under an hour to go

spacex.com/webcast
Launch in 45 minutes.

thats a big rocket

LOX load has started

youtube.com/watch?v=wwMDvPCGeE0 NasaTV is live. they often have different / better views than the spacex one

SpaceX stream is on

wonder what brand of ice-cream they have on board. They mentioned that there was some in the prelaunch conference

we get it F9, you vape

S C R U B
C
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don't scare me like that

>no John Insprucker
whyyyyy
we want John

where the fuck did you get this picture full size?

God speed Elon

>1 sec window today

scary

Jesus...that was a huge fucking explosion, hope everyone's okay

Off it goes

Yayyyyyyyy

Fuck that landing view never gets old

is someone stacking silverware in the background?

the audio is from the cafeteria

Would you a NASA, Veeky Forums?

idk maybe reddit? why?

Why did it come in sideways?

>lands rockets
>reuses rockets
>reuses capsules
>pumped and dumped amber heard


How can Bezos even compete? His money isn't going to save him when Musk launches nerve gas weapons at earth from his Martian base.

bezos has to finish his rocket factory first

instagram.com/p/BWxp6MjgTrP/?taken-by=jeffbezos

can't really build big rockets if you don't first have a factory

>km/h
When will they fix this cancer and bring m/s back?

Fucking when?

thing I noticed most was the success of the grid fins (not melting lol). Makes me so happy to see little advancements with every launch

these were the old grid fins, actually. Starting soon they'll phase them out for the new ones. Must be a high delay in making the casted titanium ones. It's the world's largest single titanium mold.

oh really? surprised the aluminium held up. Are the new ones entirely titanium or alloy?

single piece of titanium. World's largest titanium casting, as I said. Cost a pretty penny, and are heavier, but they don't melt!

They were always holding up
Just that they had to repaint them & maybe fix some welds

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so does anyone have insider info? are they really cracking the rapid reusability thing? no repairs no damage?

these threads used to reach bump limit

what happened?

routine

it's just routine now

don't need replacing, don't need repainting. Just a visual inspection and function check.

Never because Vulcan is going to be vaporware. ULA is never going to stop launching the Atlas-V

so how much cool tech did musk and company loot from the NASA archive?

That's a huge rocket/spacecraft, but for some reason I expected it to be bigger.

It really reminds me of old Soviet space craft which it's launching method.

Does Elon Musk deserve to have the F-H blow up on the pad due to his abandoning Trump?

SO PHALLIC

>pumped and dumped amber heard

Twice. He even reused her.

No, some on the toastier higher dv flights were losing whole sections.

They will when Putin blocks sale of RD-180. It is kind of ridiculous that a military launcher depends on foreign engines.

not much, using old techniques would have been more expensive

The Russians want money, and they're proud that their engine is being used by America. They'd sell ULA the RD-180 forever. They're not as petty as the Russia haters project.

Putin has been president how many years? The RD-180 keeps flowing.

But ULA will still replace it with Vulcan whenever a new engine is ready.

I know the launch hasn’t even happened yet. But fuck it. We didn’t Challenger. Get in here.

This thread is old, the launch already happened.

youtube.com/watch?v=vLxWsYx8dbo

Next one on Aug 24 I think.