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This vehichle is build in the US and it didn't explode due to the leak 
- must be the foreign influence.
Fun away - hope they succed soon.
- must be the foreign influence.Fun away - hope they succed soon.
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
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After several scrubs over the last several months, the launch is on again for 4 pm Eastern tomorrow (Friday). Here are two video streams of a test fire of the rocket on Wednesday.
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mms://a295.v221657.c22165.g.vm.akama...ic20060322.wmvI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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.Attached FilesI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Why is a private company bothering to launch anywhere other than the equator?Comment
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But SpaceX has designed a rocket that is cheap to manufacture, fly, and reuse. This is the best that forward-thinking capitalism has to offer.
Something that states have been doing for years?
Poor offering... especially since they are piggybacking on state funded knowledge.Only feebs vote.Comment
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Someone yell 4 when they launch this thingUnfortunately, scrubs happen all too often in space launch, especially when a new pad is being used for the first time.
In this case, it was something stupid. One of the launch crew manually set a liquid oxygen valve to vent rather than closed, so they ran out of helium (liquid oxygen is used to cool the helium and when they ran out of liquid oxygen, the helium boiled off fast). They will need to refresh their liquid oxygen and helium supplies from Hawaii.Comment
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The launch is at 1PM California time. Roughly 8 hours from now."Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.Comment
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Unfortunately, states have never built a rocket that is cheap to manufacture, fly, and reuse. The Russians are bad in this regard. But the U.S. is much, much worse.Originally posted by Agathon
But SpaceX has designed a rocket that is cheap to manufacture, fly, and reuse. This is the best that forward-thinking capitalism has to offer.
Something that states have been doing for years?
Poor offering... especially since they are piggybacking on state funded knowledge.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I'm gonna step outside at 1 and see if I can see it
We can always see the missile defense tests going offWe the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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This launch is in the Marshall Islands, not Vandenberg.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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The Marshall Islands is near the equator, out in the middle of the Pacific. 6 degrees north or something.Originally posted by Sandman
Why is a private company bothering to launch anywhere other than the equator?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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bleh
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham LincolnComment
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Here's BBC's article regarding the launch...
The rocket is due to launch at 2100 GMT (1300 PST).
The lift-off will take place from a US military base on Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll region of the South Pacific Marshall Islands.
If successful, it would make Falcon 1 the first privately developed, liquid-fuel rocket to make it to orbit.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp - or SpaceX as it is more commonly referred to - was founded by Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, the electronic payment system sold to the online auction giant Ebay.
At a length of 21.3m, Falcon 1 is the smallest in a family of Falcon launch vehicles being developed by the company, and is capable of carrying loads of up to 570kg.
The largest, the 53m-long Falcon 9, is scheduled to launch in late 2007, and should be able to carry about 25,000kg into low-Earth orbits. This would put it in a similar class to current American vehicles such as the Delta 4 or Atlas 5, and the European Ariane 5.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Here's a good BBC graphic comparing the size of the rocket to others that are well known.Attached FilesI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Sorry, my mistake.Originally posted by DanS
The Marshall Islands is near the equator, out in the middle of the Pacific. 6 degrees north or something.Comment
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