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News SpaceX heavy-lift vehicles: Launch Thread

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Starhopper. It fell down in a storm a couple of months ago and crushed the top cone section. They just took the cone off, fo rnow, as its not really needed. The crane in front of it gives a little idea of its size. And that would be, as I understand it, the second stage of Starship, not the entire vehicle.

Yeah I just looked it up its like how I imagined it would look.
 
There were a few concept giant SSTO plug nozzle vehicles that were proposed back in the 1960s such as Ithacus and Rombus. The plug nozzle doubled as a heat shield. I assume it used evaporative cooling.
 
I've seen the Apollo 14 capsule twice -- once in the UK on its world tour in the 70s and once on the USS Hornet in Alameda. Both times, I wondered at how small and discomforting the interior must have seemed for three men to occupy for several days at a time. The couches folded up to a small extent but I can't imagine it would be a pleasant experience even in microgravity.
Seeing a Gemini up close it is unbelievable that two people spent DAYS in that tiny little can, unable to even move. I imagine the three people on Voskhod must have been cramped beyond belief too. Takes a special sort of person to have the drive to still go through all that.
 
Seeing a Gemini up close it is unbelievable that two people spent DAYS in that tiny little can, unable to even move. I imagine the three people on Voskhod must have been cramped beyond belief too. Takes a special sort of person to have the drive to still go through all that.
I thought Voskhod was only a 2-man capsule. Ah -- Voskhod 1 was 3 man; Voskhod 2 was 2 man. That's right. Only two manned flights IIRC.
 
I thought Voskhod was only a 2-man capsule. Ah -- Voskhod 1 was 3 man; Voskhod 2 was 2 man. That's right. Only two manned flights IIRC.
It at least had a retro rocket so the crew could stay inside the pressure vessel until it landed. The Vostok cosmonauts had to bail out before it landed and parachute the rest of the way. I believe Gagarin landed in a potato field in his space suit and had to calm the local farmers and explain he needed to use their telephone.. It was was no mistake that Tereshkova was a skydiver.
 
if you happen to come across a vid please post it @XCV330 , (or anyone)
i tried to clip the reentry from the iss hd live app but it was only buffering so i got nothing...
 
Did they recently have a launch and something went boom?

Saw something on the weekend and not sure if it was SpaceX or someone else.
 
Interestingly, Falcon Heavy wont be flying again until 3rd quarter, 2020, according to manifests. SpaceX is going to be busy with final configuration for crew Dragon off LC-39a, and, I suppose, getting the pad ready for the first Starship orbital. they'll have more about that in a couple of weeks, apparently.
 
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