Launch America
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Yep watching the countdown on NASA TV. Hoping it goes well; and everything cooperates (including the weather), and they have a good launch today.
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They're up!
The first stage has successfully landed back on Earth and the capsule is in orbit!
The first stage has successfully landed back on Earth and the capsule is in orbit!
Clean launch. I love it.
I'm actually choking up a little watching this. They were just talking about this is what it's like when we work together and considering the last few nights in this country, to just see something like this is just good. I wonder if this was the feeling people had in 1969 when Man walked on the moon for the first time. With all the strife happening around the world and especially at home, something very very good happened today. I think that's something worth smiling about, even if it's just a little while.
I love the name of the drone recovery ship...Of Course I Still Love You 
The other SpaceX recovery ship is called Just Read the Instructions. I guess Elon Musk is an Iain M Banks fan.
I bet those spacesuits are a hell of a sight more comfortable than the ones from Gemini and Apollo...
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congratulations SpaceX
Inevitably, given 50 years of experience and technology. IIRC the new helmets are 3-d printed.
FWIW, the Gemini suits were different to the Mercury ones, and there were several different versions used in Gemini: one for test flights, one for EVA, one for IVA (the commander staying inside but still exposed to vacuum), and soft suits for the 14 day Gemini 7 mission.
Yep - there were quite a few different suits used back in the early days. The Russians also had quite a variety of suits for different mission types.
They still can't tilt their heads only, they have to lean back the whole body. So...hm.
Not just that, but in a Wings of Honneamise / Royal Space Force AMV
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^ such a great design
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