Thread to cover the historic attempt at landing a rocket on a barge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M
SpaceX has an instantaneous window for launch, meaning any problems and it will be delayed
Trump/Musk 2016
get in here faggots
>>70350256
I bet it won't work
>>70350256
How many more failures of landing the rocket on the ship before Elon gives up and just lands it in the water like a normal person?
>>70351451
Shut up ackhmed. Go back throwing rocks at women.
>>70351228
I thought he didn't support Trump.
>>70351537
Cleaning seawater out of that shit is expensive and time-consuming at fuck, if he can get this thing to work right it'll drop the cost of LEO flights by enough to notice.
worked just fine
http://www.spacex.com/webcast
>>70350256
So it will take 10 minutes to deploy the spacecraft in space. How long until the first stage comes back down and lands?
we live
http://www.spacex.com/webcast
>>70350256
And back go le plebbit for you
Seriously, fuck off with this space shit
This is a /pol/ board fucking faggot OP
>>70350256
Didn't they already do this before?
>>70351904
pol has always had spacex threads
mainly because space funding and spacex are mostly gov subsidized.
>>70352020
They landed on land, which isn't as efficient due to needing to travel back.
Landing on a barge at sea lets them do it more efficiently and with less regulation.
>>70351758
Sounds like he needs a rocket wash.
Landing on the barge allows them to put things into higher orbits. Since they do not have to burn fuel to turn it around, like they have to for solid ground landings.
>>70351904
We used to have awesome Space Elevator threads around here.
>>70350256
How much taxpayer money is wasted on today's launch? 100 million? 200 million?
How many veterans could be helped with that money? How many bombs could be funded to kill ISIS terrorists? How many solar panels could be created to lower energy prices in America? How many miles of road repaired?
>>70352281
fuck you roach you aren't getting any of this money
>>70352281
How much do you waste on Ackhmeds, Turkroachs, juden...?
>>70351791
allahu ackbar!!
>>70350256
When is it scheduled?
>>70352223
le spaec elevater xDD
>>70352281
/thread
Fucking government is retarded at spending
Elon musk is a meme who got lucky at pay pal
>>70352281
The budget of Nasa is around 19 billion
The money spent on tabacco products in America is around 90 billion.
We invest more money on ingesting poison than exploring space.
http://www.spacex.com/webcast
LIVE
http://www.spacex.com/webcast
LIVE
http://www.spacex.com/webcast
>>70351537
Because when something doesn't work the first couple of times the reasonable thing to do is give up?
>meanwhile ISIS genocides christians and Islam takes over the work
>Soros and the globalists lead us closer and closer to one world government and a homogenized and pointless existence
>but m-muh barge rocket
who gives a shit?
>>70352281
>>70352510
>space exploration
>waste
Kill yourselves
>>70350256
really though,t his woman is big and ready to plow. shes hot as fuck.
>>70352660
Obviously you're in the wrong thread if you don't give a shit.
Please leave :)
>>70352281
>>70352510
A lot of technology that benefits civilian life come from space research.
No niggers on stream!! Fucking racist spaceships!!!
>>70352470
Kill yourself, faggot. He made the board better.
>>70351668
I am pretty sure he's apolitical, at least publicly.
>>70352656
If there's a potential alternate solution yeah.
>>70351537
This is why all your CEO's are foreign. Americans are lazy fat retards who poo on anything new.
>>70352470
This isn't even an ironic shitpost, it's just a shitpost
>>70352281
This is a private company you fucking dumbass. NASA isn't paying shot for the landing. They pay for the supply missions.
>>70352378
>How much do you waste on Ackhmeds, Turkroachs, juden...?
A lot. What is the point? At least we don't waste it on a South African narcist with a big cock fantasy.
>>70352563
>The money spent on tabacco products in America is around 90 billion.
>The budget of Nasa is around 19 billion
Last I checked, people voluntarily buy tobacco products and use tobacco to make them feel better.
Space launches funded by the government to government space stations which cost a fortune and do the same work the government space stiations of the Soviets did, are just fucking stupid taxmoney wasting shit.
If NASA were to do actual space exploration, which is its mandate, I would have no problem. But it is just wasting money on "private" contractors sending food and shit to a LEO station which does shit nothing.
>>70352281
~90 million from NASA for the rocket + capsule they buy from SpaceX, plus whatever all the experiments and supplies they send up cost. Which is considerably cheaper than the shuttle or your average ULA national security launch.
>>70352738
Enjoy your first mars mission with a crew of feminists, muslims, and gays. I'm sure Mars will be the Nazi paradise you've always dreamed of.
>>70352936
bye bye
>>70352281
spaceX is an independent company. no taxes.
>>70352660
>creating a missile that can land on a barge
idk, you tell me
SpaceX has done more in the past few months than NASA has done in the past decade.
Why is that?
>>70352281
>>70352510
"In 1979, notable science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein was asked to appear before a joint committee of the House and Senate after recovering from one of the earliest known vascular bypass operations to correct a blocked artery that was causing transient ischemic attacks; in his testimony, reprinted in the book Expanded Universe, he characterized the technology that made the surgery possible as merely one of a long list of spinoff technologies from space development."
You see... without space development YOU COULD DIE!
>>70352904
This isn't a supply mission?
>>70353019
BECAUSE THEY WERENT BEING TAXED ENOUGH
>>70353019
Because they have a figurehead now.
Remember how apple went to the same repetitive/non-progressful shit after Jobs died?
>>70352676
>>space exploration
>>waste
Explain what the ISS has to do with space exploration.
Isabella of Castile did not fund Columbus to put his foot into the Atlantic Ocean, she funded him to use ships to actually explore shit.
>>70353019
Jews
Is he the reincarnation of Von Braun?
>it's a strong independent wymen episode
>>70352281
That's like 1.25 dollars a person, even if you were right in the first place. It's pretty insignificant
>>70350256
You might want to watch the technical broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh8V0COrrzE
>>70352758
>A lot of technology that benefits civilian life come from space research.
Name one thing that has benefitted civilian or any other life from space research on the ISS.
I bet you can't. The ISS is a 200 billion boondoggle, it is a shit government project created to spend money on nothing.
>>70353169
damn son
>>70352904
>This is a private company you fucking dumbass. NASA isn't paying shot for the landing. They pay for the supply missions.
This is a resupply mission. NASA is paying 100% for this mission. 200 million. Asshole.
Lol, Nasa geting cucked by musk
>>70353200
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=NASA+Spinoff
>>70353262
You realize that the landing has nothing to do with the launch right? All of extra stuff needed for the landing is not being paid by NASA.
>>70352826
>Despite saying he gets involved in politics "as little as possible," Musk did say he really doesn't want Trump to get the Republican nomination. "I don't really have strong feelings except that hopefully Trump doesn't get the nomination of the Republican party."
>When asked about government corruption though, he said he didn't think there was as much as some people think, at least at higher levels of government. "On balance I guess it's not that corrupt because if it was corrupt then SpaceX wouldn't have a chance," he said.
>>70352979
>spaceX is an independent company. no taxes.
87% of SpaceX revenue so far has been coming from the US taxpayer, mostly NASA.
So WTF?
>>70352921
>~90 million from NASA for the rocket + capsule they buy from SpaceX, plus whatever all the experiments and supplies they send up cost. Which is considerably cheaper than the shuttle or your average ULA national security launch.
Last I checked a single Dragon flight clocks in at 130 million and a Falcon 9 is 60 million and more. Not to forget "extras" that have to be paid for extra.
Also, a Shuttle Launch had a net payload capacity of 22 tons, this Dragon launch will take some 3mt to the ISS.
>>70352676
This. When will plebs realize that space travel/exploration is essential to the advancement of our species
>>70353020
>You see... without space development YOU COULD DIE!
You do know that the ISS has only been inhabited since 2000?
I am not saying space flight has no benefits. I am saying the ISS has no benefits. Completely different thing.
Who dis high test qt?
>>70353465
who cares
spacex is a blip on spending with tremendous returns
>>70353542
This guy understands.
Basically a trillion dollar trophy for contributing countries so they can say "we space now". Has pretty much no other purpose to exist.
>>70353184
>That's like 1.25 dollars a person, even if you were right in the first place. It's pretty insignificant
The ISS has cost 200 billion, that is nearly 1,000 bucks per adult American. There are a shitload of veterans and other Americans who don't even have 1,000 bucks saved.
I would not call that insignificant at all. People around here complain that under the 700 billion TARP, 40 billion were lost, but they have no problem to waste 200 billion on a flying pork barrel spending project?
daily reminder that space travel and elon musk are reddit personified.
If you people stopped focusing on shit like this and started arming yourselves and learning combat skills for the european racewar then maybe the world would be a better place.
technology is the cause for multiculturalism and leftism. faggots
>>70353304
Hello Romanov
>>70353193
If you want to ignore the PR deluge and annoying manlet talking over the mission controllers, watch this stream.
>>70353586
>thinks Mars is worth colonizing
Dropped.
>>70351392
I- I cant afford it, sir
T-4bings
Shiiittttttteeeee
>>70353422
>You realize that the landing has nothing to do with the launch right?
No, I do not realize that. SpaceX is paid for the launch. They do the first stage landing, so they can (at some point in the indefinite future) reuse first stages.
Doesn't change that SpaceX would long be bankrupt if NASA would be run by a fiscal conservative who took space exploration seriously.
if i were that rocket id be scared shitless.
eithe rima land on that pad.
or ima sink to the bottom of the ocean X3 im so nervous
>>70350256
musk is pure scum
>>70351578
Hurr
>>70353137
>explain what the ISS has to do with space exploration
Well, it taught us a lot about how to make and maintain habitable satilites. Don't be stupid, it's pretty obvious how that knowledge can help us develop in the future when it comes to space exploration.
T-MINUS 2 MINUTES
>>70352400
and on to the list you go
>>70353542
>>70353658
He doesn't understand shit. On the ISS all sorts of physical, biological and chemical tests are getting done to prepare humanity onto Type 1. Which carries on after they land, like the bone mass they lose due to zero G.
OH SHIT ITS HAPPENING
anyone else in their chairs sitting comfortably with their hands on the armrests, eyes almost shut, pretending they are launching with the craft?
I hope I land ok
STFU scrubs, t minus 1 minute. Continue shitposting on your taiwanese picture sharing board while real men launch missions to the stars.
>>70353737
>space travel is reddit personified
Can you get a trip so I can ignore you forever?
>>70354039
Godspeed.
STRAP IN BOYS, HERE WE GO
ALLAHU AKBAR
>>70353542
>>70353658
The ISS is a vital step towards future space exploration. They are learning how to survive in space step by step. Look into the future man. Have some dreams.
Beautiful
"of course i still love you" has AOS
These meme ship names srsly
THIS IS HOW A LIFTOFF SHOULD LOOK LIKE
>>70354107
I'm entering Max-Q, everything seems ok thus far...pressure is a bit much but I'm fine
U GUISE ELOJ MUSK IS SO GEWD, REDDIT IS ALSO A GREAT WEBSITE!!
>>70350256
Private companies have no business in space, only goverment space agencies should be allowed. Time to nationalize his his sorry ass of a company.
ill be honest, it looks like a giant penis
>>70353964
>Well, it taught us a lot about how to make and maintain habitable satilites.
It has not. The 7 Soviet space stations, especially MIR, have done the legwork already.
>>70353964
>Don't be stupid, it's pretty obvious how that knowledge can help us develop in the future when it comes to space exploration.
That is like saying "look, for the next 25 years I will every day in the morning put my right foot into a bucket of water, that will help me when I am attempting to swim across the English channel."
We need COMPLETELY different things for actual space exploration, most notably new propulsion technology, different launch vehicles, different energy systems, landing techniques on different planetary objects, robotics advancements etc. A LEO space station boondoggle which was that expensive because it has lots of bureaucracy and shit in it, doesn't help at all. The Russians have said, it is so ridiculous, the ISS is redoing shit research they did on Salyut 3 and Salyut 4... and astronauts aren't just redoing those things once, they are redoing it 5 or more times.
SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH
THE FREE MARKET WINS AGAIN
LIBERALS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
noice launch
it is gone
>>70352979
MFW no taxes
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
keep sucking elon's cock so he can get rich
Leave space niggers to me
>>70354303
You're space program has sure been successful...oh wait
You don't have one
WHITE PERSON OLYMPICS
FK YH
>>70353983
>On the ISS all sorts of physical, biological and chemical tests are getting done to prepare humanity onto Type 1.
Name one thing, Turkroach. Just one specific shit.
>>70353983
>like the bone mass they lose due to zero G.
Last I checked, the longest zero G flight test still dates back to Soviet/Russian MIR missions.
>>70354396
Lol your, damn iPhone
>you will never go to space
>1st stage separation
>People celebrating
Wut
>>70354379
i literally wouldnt give a shit even if it were powered by food stamps and purple drank
>>70354465
we are in space and time.
>>70350256
Oh boy another white accomplishment off the backs of others
>>70354206
>The ISS is a vital step towards future space exploration. They are learning how to survive in space step by step. Look into the future man. Have some dreams.
This is so dumb. If you build a small boat and another small boat and another small boat, and then someone builds one bigger boat and crosses 200km of water and comes back... then if in the next 50 year you built another small boat, you are WASTING resources, not exploring.
>>70354477
How's the turkey space program coming along?
>>70354477
It's a critical point, many launches fail there
>>70354465
you can pay to have your ashes sent up now. Its like 10k for the moon, 15k to be set out of earths sphere of influence.
I mean, one way or another I will go to space.
>>70354503
fug off with your bait senpai
>mfw other races are too stupid to see that white people are getting off this shitty planet and leaving everyone else to die here
>>70354261
Boostback burn complete...landing burn starting....IM COMING HOME
>>70354571
>>70354477
The last SpaceX CRS mission, CRS-7, failed less than two seconds before first stage separation.
QUE THE BOWIE!
THERES A STAAAARR MAAAAAAAN WAITING IN THE SKY!
>>70354420
>Name one thing, Turkroach. Just one specific shit.
Did you even check what module Dragon carries to ISS you low level lifeform?
>>70354420
>belongs to Soviets
Whose descendants are proudly participating in the ISS for a reason.
Kill yourself and stop wasting my O2.
>>70354420
Didn't the ISS just install a new inflatable module? Granted it's just a proof-of-concept and doesn't add much to the overall volume of the station, but it's the first of it's kind and may well be the basis for future IP craft.
I agree on the whole "we need a lot more than LEO vacations" reasoning though, you're not wrong.
>>70354527
if you have no experience about surviving in space you would travel to the end of the universe and die
>>70354574
That's cool but fuck, I want to be BURIED on the moon. That would be metal as fuck.
>>70354604
yeah and they will us alone
>>70350256
AAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
BASED
BASED
BASED
WHITE MAN WINS AGAIN
Holy shit that landing
ok no more roleplaying, that was awesome
they did it HOLY FUCK
we did it reddit
YES
YEEEESSSSSSS
FUCK YEAH MOTHERFUCKER!
USA
S
A
Holy shit that was smooth
USA USA USA USA USA
THE ABSOLUTE MADMEN
>>70354527
>crossing 200km of water
>breaking the earths gravity and traveling millions of miles in the vaccum of space
bet your grandfather cursed the automobile on horseback ?
>it landed fine
FUCK YEAH
HOLY SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
THE FIRST STAGE HAS LANDED
CAPITALISM WINS AGAIN
LIBERALS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT FOREVER
>>70351451
>>70351451
BTFO BTFO BTFO
THEY DID IT
THE ABSOLUTE
MAD MEN
HOLY SHEEEET
ELON DID IT THE MAD MAN
Fuck, did I miss it?
THAT WAS SO FUCKING COOL
its a trick, they just played a launch backwards
USA USA USA USA
That was absolutely flawless.
ayyyyyye lmao what did that rocket land like that :DDDDD
>>70354088
USA USA USA USA USA USA
>>70350256
Fuck, missed it.
USA USA USA USA USA
USA USA USA
FUCK YEAH AMERICA WINS
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
USA USA USA USA
>>70350256
I tuned in exactly when it came down. Perfect.
>>70353817
how long before people demand that this room be more 'diverse'?
I give it a year
what is it with burgers and chanting USA
>USA USA USA USA
bless you americlaps
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016 TRUMP 2016
FUCK YEAH
SPACE NIGGERS BTFO WE WIN AGAIN
I think I creamed my pants
MOON BASES WHEN
USA USA USA
USAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSA
USAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSA
USAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSA
FUCKING FINALLY!!
>>70354527
No, it's not like that. It's like when they realized lemon juice would prevent scurvy on ships.
>>70354866
>>70354907
ME TOO SENPAI
THIS IS HISTORIC
AMERICA!
WE DID IT, AMERICA
>>70354866
hahaha
It's a little off center
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Well that was pretty damn cool. I got up just in time to watch the launch too. A good day to be alive.
every other country btfo only americans allowed to post now
OHHHHHHH CANADA
MY HOME AND NATIVE LAND
THANK YOU ELON. MAKING CANADA GREAT AGAIN
>KNIGHTED WHEN
KNIGHTED WHEN
>KNIGHTED WHEN
KNIGHTED WHEN
>KNIGHTED WHEN
KNIGHTED WHEN
>KNIGHTED WHEN
KNIGHTED WHEN
>KNIGHTED WHEN
KNIGHTED WHEN
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
>>70355091
today, everyone is american
missed it
>>70355021
Wait... why is she rubbing hands?
Any of you got the video?
Is it wrong that the landing gave me a boner?
>>70355105
A FUCKING LEAF
Anyone have a webm of the landing?
>>70355091
what is the purpose of this rocket anonchan
explain to me please
i know it looks amazing and shit but what are e they doing
Isnt Elon Sooth Efrican?
GET REKT EVERYONE ELSE
>>70355173
Yes. now you're slave to the BRC
BIG ROCKET COCK
He actually did it. Self driving cars in 2018 confirmed.
>>70354907
>>70355020
ME TOO FAMPAIS
CHAMPAGNE'S ON ME
>>70355143
the jews helped them
>open it
>USA USA USA chanting
I dun missed it
God bless USA!!!
>>70355186
TO WIN
*CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPBURGERCLAPCLAP*
AMERICA IS GREETEST
get me away from these sjws and welfare fags
we space gundams now
>>70354866
heh
>>70355173
It's wrong if it didn't
>ULA CRONY CAPITALISTS BTFO
>BLUE ORIGIN BTFO
>EDGY ANTI ELON BANDWAGONERS BTFO
what a good week, ~20 billion in model 3 preorders, and drone ship landing.
next week back to the:
>hurr durr elon is a scam lol pure luck
>t. 27 year old kissless virgin NEET
>>70354921
It's a freedom thing, you wouldn't understand
>>70352281
>implying space exploration is a waste of money
>implying Musk doesn't own SolarCity
>implying roads shouldn't be privatised anyway
Back to Turkey with you, faggot.
>>70355199
He was born there and later became American
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
That
was
awesome
I'm Norwegian but fuck it USA USA USA USA
>>70355186
Making the rocket engine, the body and tanks is 90% of the cost of a launch
Get it back, refurbish it, and you can cut costs dramatically.
Booyah! Gotta love his perseverence. The cheering in Hawthorne was great to see.
Suck it, haters.
fuck yuo western europoors slavland is best get cucked more
>>70355064
i cringed so hard when it was coming down it for sure looked liek it was gonna fall/miss
The sun looks so fucking good right now
I am glad I managed to watch it just before it landed
I've never had my jaw drop open until watching that 1st stage land on the barge
Jesus Hussein Christ
Also why is the boat called "of course i still love you"
BLS RISEE
WE PRIVATE SPACE NOW
LIBERALS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT FOREVER
>>70354707
>Whose descendants are proudly participating in the ISS for a reason.
No, they are not proud at it at all. Roskosmos has complained for years that the ISS is just wasting resources and holding them back. This is why they are quitting the ISS prematurely, which will tank the whole boondoggle in 2024 (after it is abandoned in 2023). Of course the whole shitty aluminum garbage should have been tanked in 2019 already. Maybe Putin changes his mind again. Would be awesome.
>>70355186
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pUAydjne5M
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Dragon spacecraft to low Earth orbit to deliver critical cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA
anyone else secretly hoping it tips over
>>70355307
>Back to Turkey
Nope, I told him off. He can go back to Africa
>>70354711
>Didn't the ISS just install a new inflatable module
It's stowed in the Dragon capsule that SpaceX just launched and will be deployed after the Dragon arrives.
>>70355340
noice
>docking
It's amazing how fast it came in, they're operating on the hairy edge of what can be done right now.
Black science man rustled
>>70352876
all of our? who else besides elon musk is a foreigner at the helm of any noteworthy company? retard
COMMUNISM
SOCIALISM
FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF
>the docking hinges on Canada's arm
DONT FUCK IT UP
>>70355182
>>70354921
You would never get it man, dont even try. You have to live here to understand
>>70355406
nice proxy australia
>>70355183
Check NASA's web site. NASA TV is still carrying live feeds from dragon. The landing was the clearest and closest I have seen yet.
>>70355416
fair enough m8
America will be great again
>>70355488
CAPITALISM HEY HO
LIBERALS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
LIBERALS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
LIBERALS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
LIBERALS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT
THE FREE MARKET DOES IT AGAIN
SOCIALISM: 0
CAPITALISM: INFINITY
>>70355455
>mfw you could see the guy trying to hold back his laughter when he said "birthing is different to docking"
>>70355478
Google and Microsoft. Ever hear of them?
>>70355183
Give me a second
What a lovely day.
It's like nobody gives a fuck about the cargo anymore.
What if they forget about it during the approach because they're clapping too hard, and the Dragon shreds the ISS?
>>70355493
A
FUCKING
LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAF
>>70354921
You will never live in a country where the mere chanting of its acronym will intimidate others.
>>70355307
>>implying space exploration is a waste of money
Ths ISS isn't space exploration. Exploration requires, EXPLORATION, you fishead.
>>70355307
>>implying Musk doesn't own SolarCity
Has nothing to do with anything. Also, he doesn't "own" it, he is one of several shareholders.
>>70355307
>>implying roads shouldn't be privatised anyway
I am all for privatised roads, just as privatised space. I think the government shouldn't pay a cent for space travel shit to LEO. The government should only do actual exploration.
Thank you, America
>>70355318
Like Cruz but with Canada?