Dragon has successfully reached orbit.
Dragon has successfully reached orbit.
No word on the attempt to bring the first stage down to the water under controlled conditions. One announcement during launch said the video was good and that the stage’s first burn was successful.
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Dragon has successfully reached orbit.
No word on the attempt to bring the first stage down to the water under controlled conditions. One announcement during launch said the video was good and that the stage’s first burn was successful.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
That was a nice launch.
Terrific launch. Eagerly awaiting the results of the landing test. A video showing the Falcon 9 with legs extended hovering a few meters over he ocean would be spectacular.
Can’t wait to see the video of the first stage. The F niner video was exciting too.
Elon Musk via Twitter:
Data upload from tracking plane shows landing in Atlantic was good! Several boats enroute through heavy seas.
Flight computers continued transmitting for 8 seconds after reaching the water. Stopped when booster went horizontal.
Sounding good. I guess there is no video. The proof will be in the pudding. In this case the water recovery of the actual flight hardware. Hopefully the seas aren’t too rough.