Comments on: Is SpaceX doing ocean salvage operations near Boca Chica?

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:33:45 +0000

That was nice.

Understandable, since there has always been a schism over which is more sacred-Earth of Sky?

What is Gaia compared to Jove?

By: agimarc

agimarc — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:07:04 +0000

Off topic. With Sunday the 56th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, Pope Leo makes a call to Buzz Aldrin. Interesting piece in American Thinker. Cheers –

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/pope_leo_calls_up_and_congratulates_buzz_aldrin_on_the_54th_anniversary_of_the_moon_landing.html

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:28:00 +0000

In reply to Blair Ivey. Blair Ivey: That sanctimonious commentary was from a NASASpaceFlight.com commentator. It certainly looked to me as if that was a long lens shot taken well away from the salvage operations. I guess NASASpaceFlight.com was simply resentful someone else was scooping them on the story.

By: Blair Ivey

Blair Ivey — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:13:52 +0000

” . . . albeit from a vantage point of someone who should not have been that close to the recovery operations, . . .”

I don’t know about that. Ship tracking sites put the recovery operation about 50 nm off the Mexican coast, with a 0.25 nm (~1500 feet) clearance advisory. A stabilized long lens can get that kind of lo-res shot. A little surprised there aren’t a swarm of drones in the vicinity. Or, maybe there are; it’s international waters.

By: pzatchok

pzatchok — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:42:39 +0000

I am surprised they didn’t go out and recover it the night it fell in the ocean.

By: MDN

MDN — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:34:13 +0000

My guess is they didn’t want anyone else to salvage some of ot surreptitiously. I’m sure many countries would like to get a Raptor engine or 2 to copy and do materials science testing on to figure out the exact alloys used.