Month: February 2018
great success and a skid of champale
yes a skid of champagne. open in the florida sun for 40min. wow. watch the recap videos. when the dual booster relit for coming back and then the landing…. wow here is nick enjoying what im sure will be his best carbonated wine of the day
liquid oxygen clouds
you can see the evapourating oxygen as it loads the 2nd2nd stage. all systems go for about 15 minutes mobile data coverage struggles with all of us here using it. 4min to go. lots of commentary 1min
t minus 1 hr and starting liquid fuel
looking good for the kaboom
5 minutes to fueling falcon heavy
launch window ends at 4pm. fueling needs to start in 5min to hit it. no word on gas mileage. the tower back there is the rocket we are starting the go/nogo. we are go for fueling commencing!
2:30 to go, winds, bring on bill nye to entertain the crowd
crowd is getting excited. selfies with bill nye all around. lets talk about the near certainty of martians to keep us excited! turns out if u want to practise martian life go to Antarctica. hmmm. i’ll research this later. best comment seen (yet) is inside the appollo visitor centre. a photo of astronauts practising in…
