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| Thread ID: 114596 | 2010-12-09 21:02:00 | First Privateer Space Launch Success | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1160254 | 2010-12-09 21:02:00 | The SpaceX launch was completed with full recovery as scheduled . Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, it achieved orbital stability for two circumnavigations around the Earth and a splash-down 500 miles off the coast of Southern California today . I was outside sitting on my porch swing when I heard a cluster of sonic booms - and I looked up to see what might have been a re-entry - at least it looked like the ones I saw when I was in the Navy and we were on a down-range position from a few launches while I was overseas . Then at 11:43, my time, I saw several contrails in the sky from various aircraft and possibly the re-entry of the craft as they are visible through some 50% cloud cover here . The returning contrails are going from NNE to SSW over my house . Here's a post-site of the actual launch and 2nd-stage separation from a commercial source . ( . collectspace . com/news/news-120810a . html" target="_blank">www . collectspace . com) I'll post a short video that I took of a couple more heavy military aircraft in the sky returning from the recovery site . These aircraft - in relative close proximity to each other, passed over my house at about 12:03 local time here in SoCal . Let me load these up on YouTube for youse guys . There are even more contrails forming as I type this in . Some are VERY heavy aircraft and some are faster and much smaller - possibly fighters or pursuit craft returning from the splashdown site . At the moment there are also quite a few prop-aircraft going in the opposite direction, back toward the probable splashdown area and I suspect some of these might be press or newspaper photographers leaving from either Palm Springs or Edwards or even Barstow . I'll try to get some of that uploaded later too . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1160255 | 2010-12-09 21:35:00 | Welcome back, we hope you are "Mending" ok. PJ & Maryann. | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1160256 | 2010-12-09 22:36:00 | Bucket list there, guess seeing the space shuttle launch will not make it as they only have 2-3 missions left | Gobe1 (6290) | ||
| 1160257 | 2010-12-09 22:37:00 | Thanks - this is gonna be a bad day too - I can just tell. I get one good day and then several bad ones to make me pay for it. Today generally sux. Nice to see you PJ. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1160258 | 2010-12-10 00:02:00 | always got something interesting to post SurferJoe. keep it up:thumbs: |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1160259 | 2010-12-10 02:50:00 | always got something interesting to post SurferJoe . keep it up:thumbs: Thanks . I try . My wife says I'm VERY trying . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1160260 | 2010-12-10 07:08:00 | First video is up on YouTube here . ( . youtube . com/watch?v=W6wFxTc7CN8" target="_blank">www . youtube . com) The contrail in the tree is the one that originally was almost directly over my head, but we have some serious upper-altitude winds here from a cut-off LOW pressure zone and it is shifted well to the South and is visible through that tree . My wife wandered outside to see what I was doing and she makes one classic question at the end . I think she is really a blonde . :help: |
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| 1160261 | 2010-12-10 08:48:00 | How much was funded by NASA ? :) |
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| 1160262 | 2010-12-10 17:31:00 | How much was funded by NASA ? :) I haven't really heard anything except for the use of the pad area, which is no longer a contracted NASA property . My suspicions are that very little if any monies came from NASA which is struggling badly with it's own budget cuts . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1160263 | 2010-12-10 19:50:00 | I haven't really heard anything except for the use of the pad area, which is no longer a contracted NASA property. My suspicions are that very little if any monies came from NASA which is struggling badly with it's own budget cuts. Might be Google to the rescue, as I read Google might/already collaborate with NASA for data gathering, since they are leasing property near the Ames research center. I think Google founders own jets to help NASA for research. Thanks for pics... |
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