SpaceX successfully completes dress rehearsal for Saturday launch
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully completed its standard dress rehearsal countdown, including a static firing of the Falcon 9 first stage, in anticipation of its schedule launch of a commercial communications satellite on Saturday.
The first stage will be the third reused first stage to fly into space.
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Capitalism in space: SpaceX today successfully completed its standard dress rehearsal countdown, including a static firing of the Falcon 9 first stage, in anticipation of its schedule launch of a commercial communications satellite on Saturday.
The first stage will be the third reused first stage to fly into space.
Fans of John Batchelor may want to check out a pair of podcasts titled “Safe Is Not An Option” newly available on John’s podcasts page if they haven’t already found them.
Willi, here are some links:
Part 1: https://player.fm/series/the-john-batchelor-show-96788/safe-is-not-an-option-overcoming-the-futile-obsession-with-getting-everyone-back-alive-that-is-killing-our-expansion-into-space-by-rand-simberg-and-william-simon-part-1-of-2
Part 2: https://player.fm/series/the-john-batchelor-show-96788/safe-is-not-an-option-overcoming-the-futile-obsession-with-getting-everyone-back-alive-that-is-killing-our-expansion-into-space-by-rand-simberg-and-william-simon-part-2-of-2
They are about 20 minutes each.
That’s a replay of the 2014-11-09 John Batchelor’s interview with Rand Simberg.