Comments on: Falcon Heavy on the launchpad https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 03:57:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Commodude https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033484 Mon, 01 Jan 2018 03:57:03 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033484 Pzatchok, What else would they be playing but “Space oddity”?

http://www.ibtimes.com/elon-musk-plans-sending-tesla-roadster-mars-while-playing-david-bowie-2622873

Love the humor from Space-X.

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033467 Mon, 01 Jan 2018 01:35:40 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033467 I think they are leaving the stereo on during launch.
Don’t know what they will be playing.

]]> By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033461 Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:38:59 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033461 Richard asked: “Where will they recharge the car’s batteries”

I suspect that Musk is counting on Newton being in the driver’s seat (as Lovell said in the movie “Apollo 13”), and the car will just keep going and going, like the Energizer Bunny. Except without relying on battery power.

]]> By: ken anthony https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033322 Sun, 31 Dec 2017 07:57:16 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033322 My step-dad saw the Hindenburg catch fire. He was 8 y.o. when his dad brought him from Canada to see the docking.

]]> By: Andi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033268 Sun, 31 Dec 2017 01:26:30 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033268 Don’t worry about being dated. My father took me to the launch of TIROS I, the first weather satellite. April 1, 1960.

]]> By: mivenho https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033241 Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:33:27 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033241 I’m as excited to see this launch as I was for the first shuttle launch in 1981 (I realize that dates me).

]]> By: Localfluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033095 Sat, 30 Dec 2017 06:15:08 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033095 This is a demonstration of good marketing. The FH Tesla will quickly become the car that traveled the most miles. Now every candy maker wants to put his chocolate bar up there. 1% of the global advertising market would multiply investments in space flight.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033075 Sat, 30 Dec 2017 04:35:22 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033075 I’m curious if SpaceX will try and start the car.

]]> By: Michael https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033074 Sat, 30 Dec 2017 04:32:17 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033074 Saw this on another website. It may even be true.

Launch of FH Test on a Falcon Heavy rocket from KSC, FL launch complex LC-39A
Launch scheduled for 31 Jan 18 at 0:00 GMT
Local time 30 Jan 18 at 7:00pm Eastern

]]> By: ken anthony https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033062 Sat, 30 Dec 2017 03:02:43 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033062 The darn electric car will be swimming in juice. They may need a solar panel to keep the radio playing?

]]> By: Alex Andrite https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033047 Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:13:00 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033047 Awaiting for all of the, and close up, videos of the hold-down hot firing test.
“Peace through Superior Firepower” takes on an entirely new meaning with these ‘Fires’.

Awaiting ….

Alex

]]> By: Richard https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033046 Sat, 30 Dec 2017 00:11:37 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033046 Where will they recharge the car’s batteries. The darn electric car is always running out of juice .

]]> By: ken anthony https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033027 Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:13:12 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033027 Fastest roadster evah! On the FIRST interplanetary rocket (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.)

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033003 Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:51:00 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033003 In reply to geoffc.

geoffc: Thanks for the tip. I have updated the post.

]]> By: geoffc https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1033002 Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:45:19 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1033002 And now it is down. :)

https://spaceflightnow.com/2017/12/29/time-lapse-video-falcon-heavy-lowered-after-launch-pad-debut/

That was the fit check. Next up is the Static Fire (as noted by Kirk (KKIIIIRRRRRRKKKK. Oh sorry, KKKKKHHHHHAAAANNNNN) whenever it is, around Zuma.

Don’t forget that gorgeous Roadster as the payload. Who else on earth, can make such a joke and then go ahead and just do it.

PS: If you were one of those fellows who bullied Musk when he was a kid in South Africa, you may wish to make sure your name NEVER ever appears in the news. Here you have a guy loony toons enough (Which I LOVE!) to launch a car on a rocket test flight, if you remind him of how much he hates you, what would happen if a landing first stage missed and hit your house? Mistakes happen, computer errors, random chance… So many landings, a mistake or two, crap happens.

]]> By: Kirk https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/falcon-heavy-on-the-launchpad/#comment-1032997 Fri, 29 Dec 2017 17:25:23 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=49453#comment-1032997 Next scheduled SpaceX launch is Zuma out of CCAFAS SLC-40, 8:00 PM EST, Thursday, 4 January 2018. I’d be surprised if they static fire the FH before Zuma is away, but I could see it happening shortly thereafter.

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