OT: Can SpaceX do it today

[GeorgeStreet]

Launch of the space station resupply ship in about 30 minutes. Includes another attempt to land the spent first stage rocket on a barge floating in the Atlantic. Name of barge - "Of course I still love you."

See it live on SpaceX website or on YouTube.

Good luck Elon Musk!

 

[dvb91]

So far, so good.

 

[dvb91]

Cool landing. Missed the bullseye, but recovered safely. The peeps are excited at SpaceX.

 

[RU4Real]

I think this will go even better when they're doing recovery on the next gen recovery barge, which I understand will be named "I'll Call You, I Promise".

 

[miketd1]

Suggestion:
"It's not you; it's me."

 

[GeorgeStreet]

That launch and first stage recovery was absolutely beautiful. I love SpaceX using their young engineers (including female engineers with pink hair!) to explain what is happening and guide viewers through the launch.

The drone ship landing of the first stage rocket was absolutely spectacular! That is an unbelievable accomplisment for those young engineers. I'm so glad that they are on our side.

This is a terrific success for a private American company. It demonstrates that the USA is still #1 in aerospace engineering and rocket science.

 

[FanuSanu52]

Good week for Elon Musk.

 

[GeorgeStreet]

I don't want to forget to congratulate Elon Musk. He tried and failed, more than once. But he got back up and tried again.

Of course, he was smart enough to hire excellent young American engineers. Not Ivy League finance majors. But smart young engineers from America's strong engineering colleges, like Rutgers. They make real stuff happen.

 

[RU4Real]

I don't want to forget to congratulate Elon Musk. He tried and failed, more than once. But he got back up and tried again.

Of course, he was smart enough to hire excellent young American engineers. Not Ivy League finance majors. But smart young engineers from America's strong engineering colleges, like Rutgers. They make real stuff happen.

Elon Musk seems to be the sort of thing that somebody like Donald Trump is not.

Yeah, I said it.

 

[brodo]

Here's a video of the launch and landing. The spent first stage landing on a barge in the Atlantic begins at 35:17. Watch the left side of the split screen. It's spectacular. For clarity's sake, the announcer references the unusual name of the barge - "Of course I still love you."

 

[pmvon]

I don't want to forget to congratulate Elon Musk. He tried and failed, more than once. But he got back up and tried again.

Of course, he was smart enough to hire excellent young American engineers. Not Ivy League finance majors. But smart young engineers from America's strong engineering colleges, like Rutgers. They make real stuff happen.

No need to criticize people who go into finance and many of whom are very smart too. Without capital markets none of this stuff happens. We need good smart people across all sectors of the economy. Stop buying into the liberal bs.

That being said. musk is the man and an incredible visionary. The electric car is cool, hyper loop, etc.......

 

[saran]

I don't want to forget to congratulate Elon Musk. He tried and failed, more than once. But he got back up and tried again.

Of course, he was smart enough to hire excellent young American engineers. Not Ivy League finance majors. But smart young engineers from America's strong engineering colleges, like Rutgers. They make real stuff happen.

He's also smart enough to be a welfare king and work off taxpayer money, He's an interesting guy of course but like a lot of other geeks hasn't made much profit yet.

"Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies"

"Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space.

And he's built those companies with the help of billions in government subsidies..

"He definitely goes where there is government money," said Dan Dolev, an analyst at Jefferies Equity Research....

Tesla and SolarCity continue to report net losses after a decade in business, but the stocks of both companies have soared on their potential; Musk's stake in the firms alone is worth about $10 billion. (SpaceX, a private company, does not publicly report financial performance.)

Musk and his companies' investors enjoy most of the financial upside of the government support, while taxpayers shoulder the cost..."

At least Trump uses bank money.


http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html

 

[Babybull244]

No wonder the Chinese are cleaning our clocks...no other country would loan a foreign national from South Africa 4.9 Billion Dollars of US Taxpayer Dollars - lose money on every company and that is now considered a successful US Company...yeesh

 

[lighty]

I'm pretty sure Trump cost taxpayers money in Atlantic City..,

 

[pmvon]

No wonder the Chinese are cleaning our clocks...no other country would loan a foreign national from South Africa 4.9 Billion Dollars of US Taxpayer Dollars - lose money on every company and that is now considered a successful US Company...yeesh

Chinese aren't cleaning our clocks, they are trying to hold their economy together right now.

Do you really think tesla isn't and will not be a successful company? Is current profitability the only measure of success? Is Amazon a successful company?

 

[RU MAN]

And yes, they land the rocket safely on the barge. Outstanding!

 

[Babybull244]

& the Yuppies have entered the room - have you noticed the manufacturing has left the building along with Elvis?

Like from West/US to East/China...do we make anything anymore except paper financial instruments....nope - it's a novelty Made in the USA.

Cleaning our clocks - they make stuff - we do not - no more...maybe after the dollar crashes we will be making stuff for them...lol

 

[pmvon]

A brilliant trump supporter. Stop getting your info and views from him, he's an idiot.

 

[GeorgeStreet]

If the federal taxes I pay go to support in a small way projects like this, I consider it money well spent. At least they are not building casinos with it or hiding it in Panama.