Falcon Heavy Launch 3pm EST

In reply to Keith Tanner :

Thanks for reinforcing just how much that looked like something straight out of a video game. 

The complete synchronization between the two boosters was almost too good to be true. I love it.

Musk tweeted a view from the car and you can hear people in the control room laughing about how it looks like bad CGI.

I missed the launch, as I was on the phone with bidness peoples.   I knew it took off though, as I could hear it (inside the office) and it shook the ground.

It shook the ground, and we are about 65 miles away from the Space Center!   Pretty impressive, certainly the coolest thing to take off since the Space Shuttle.

Cool watching it at work.

And one thing we noted- the total excitement of the people there.  So we asked ourselves if it were possible that we could get that excited at work.....  

Personally, I've had some minor exciting times, but nothing like that.

The booster landings look like CGI from a sci-fi flick.  Incredible to watch.

Joe Gearin said:

It shook the ground, and we are about 65 miles away from the Space Center!  

Holy poop! 

NEALSMO said:

The booster landings look like CGI from a sci-fi flick.  Incredible to watch.

That was a cool launch to watch that for the first time!

alfadriver said:

Cool watching it at work.

And one thing we noted- the total excitement of the people there.  So we asked ourselves if it were possible that we could get that excited at work.....  

Personally, I've had some minor exciting times, but nothing like that.

Maybe you guys should go run Le Mans or something. That might be exciting.

NEALSMO said:

The booster landings look like CGI from a sci-fi flick.  Incredible to watch.

That blows my mind every time I see it.  

Keith Tanner said:

alfadriver said:

Cool watching it at work.

And one thing we noted- the total excitement of the people there.  So we asked ourselves if it were possible that we could get that excited at work.....  

Personally, I've had some minor exciting times, but nothing like that.

Maybe you guys should go run Le Mans or something. That might be exciting.

I know you say that with a grain of salt- and it was very cool to watch LeMans with that engine moving the car.  But I can be honest that I wasn't nearly as excited as those rocket scientists were.  We were kind of making fun of them, but it was more out of jealousy that you could be that excited about work.

I used to think that tailsitting rocket landings were the silliest thing in old sci-fi movies. Turns out they just needed more powerful control computers than anyone imagined back then.

In reply to GameboyRMH :

As we were watching it live, I told my coworkers "yeah, this is cool engineering, but what you're really watching here is raw computing power."

I need closure, what the berkeley happened to the center booster!

This looks like "Spaceport Earth" from one of the sci-fi novels I used to read as a teen.

DeadSkunk said:

 

 

This looks like "Spaceport Earth" from one of the sci-fi novels I used to read as a teen.

It even has gratuitous lens flare.

Watching those rockets land is surreal.  Having grown up thinking it could never be done, I can watch it happen on my laptop.

This well-choreographed landing brought to you in part by the fine folks at.....

Wait for it....

Dan Gurney's All-American Racers.  Yes, you heard that correctly.  They developed the landing gear for these boosters.  Thanks Dan.  I hope you had a good view of the launch.

Any word about @FalconMainCore?

<edit>  Apparently only one engine lit on reentry and it cratered - well, splashed - at 300 mph. 

Well, from what I understand, the center core was never expected to be reusable

Very cool- crazy bunch at SpaceX 

Corvette, Tesla, I don't care

Very cool to see it in person. Sounds were fantastic!

I had no idea this was happening until this thread. Watched the video.  That was some star trek/buck rogerslevel stuff with the landing. Absolutely awsome. 

Why did they shoot a tesla into space? Because they could? Or some other reason?

In reply to Dusterbd13 :

Elon musk.... Is.... Unique.

He does what he wants

In reply to Dusterbd13 :

Dummy payload - this was only a test. And a bunch of publicity.