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10 Dec 2020, 7:26 am

Its absolutely nuts. They were crazily close to landing it, I reckon they will get it in right round 2. Omg they are nuts.




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10 Dec 2020, 11:08 am

Nuts and nuts in a very, very, cool way!
:D 8)
Watched that live on YouTube via SpaceX's own channel and a website/YouTube channel named NASA spaceflight.

Conversation about it yesterday and today on The Rocketry Forum for model rocketry.

My favorite viewer comment yesterday from NASAspaceflight's YT channel,
"That was the most Kerbal thing I've ever seen."
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10 Dec 2020, 11:10 am

Say, isn't there a line in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy about a spaceship hanging in midair like bricks don't?

I think SpaceX accomplished that yesterday.


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10 Dec 2020, 11:27 am

kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
Nuts and nuts in a very, very, cool way!
:D 8)
Watched that live on YouTube via SpaceX's own channel and a website/YouTube channel named NASA spaceflight.

Conversation about it yesterday and today on The Rocketry Forum for model rocketry.

My favorite viewer comment yesterday from NASAspaceflight's YT channel,
"That was the most Kerbal thing I've ever seen."
:lol:


I am actually quite jealous of that. I watch a lot of their first attempts of stuff live, but I didn't know that it had a set date. :cry: Apparently the only thing that went wrong is pretty straightforward to fix. I feel like I can't wait for them to move on to the next step.



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10 Dec 2020, 12:01 pm

Aww, that was a bummer about not knowing about the date.
They did have to abort and reschedule a couple times.

Here's a website which may be of interest, assuming you don't already have it.
Main page has a launch countdown watch for various launches around the world,
https://www.americaspace.com/


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