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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give
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Has anyone asked him if he knows the definition of insanity?
Elon Musk Divorces His Wife Talulah Riley - Again
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Has anyone asked him if he knows the definition of insanity?
Elon Musk Divorces His Wife Talulah Riley - Again
Elon Musk is doing Space X focused AMA on reddit right now.
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That was cool!!
The barge landing was a partial success, if I understand correctly what happened. Apparently the first stage made it to the barge, but hit it to hard damaging the barge and the rocket.
IMHO, the real accomplishment is being able to fire the rocket engine while falling back to earth at hypersonic speeds and use that engine to precisely control the vehicle. Controlling a falling rocket at hypersonic speed has got to be difficult. Those grid fins are pretty cool also.
for the close encounter, the mission’s science, engineering and spacecraft operations teams configured the piano-sized probe for distant observations of the Pluto system that start Sunday, Jan. 25 with a long-range photo shoot.
The New Horizons spacecraft, on course for a historic encounter with Pluto this summer, is now close enough to see two of its smaller moons for the first time.
SpaceX will attempt to place a satellite at a laGrange point.
"the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is ready to be launched into space at 6:10 p.m. EST on Sunday, 8 February. It will be lofted atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1 booster from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., and will eventually be positioned at the L1 Lagrange Point, some 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) away, where the gravitational influences of Earth and the Sun meet in equilibrium. Although SpaceX has previously launched missions into low-Earth orbit and into geostationary transfer orbit, DSCOVR will mark the first occasion that the Hawthorne, Calif.-based company has delivered a payload so far into space."
And they will also try again to land the first stage on the barge out in the ocean.
SpaceX stands ready to deliver its first dual-satellite mission toward Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), no sooner than Sunday, 1 March.
Italy provided the espresso maker for Cristoforetti, who's been stuck with instant coffee since her mission began in November.
"It's been just amazing," Cristoforetti said after snaring the Dragon over the Pacific. "Lots of science and even coffee's in there, so that's pretty exciting."
If you will be in Italy on April 17th, then keep your eyes peeled for cafes celebrating national espresso day!