I think you have a good balance going. Enough to keep those of us interested nicely informed but I doubt it can be all that annoying to others to have a single thread that gets bumped. I also like having this specifically about the first private companies' forays into the rest of the Solar System.

If others have a problem with this or the science thread maybe we will have to start a science forum. :)

This thread is AWESOME! I know this thread has done a lot to help me keep up with SpaceX and their activities. On more than one occasion I've used this thread to gather the neighborhood kids to watch. I can't say any will become rocket kids, but they think it's cool and that's the first step.

So please keep it going..

Keep it up DaFace. You're providing a valuable service you the community. Many are keeping track of the future of space exploration here but not posting. The 18,000 views and only 466 posts back that up I think.

Great point.

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Maybe tomorrow?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We won&#39;t be seeing ASDS and F9 S1 (CRS-8) come back today. Tracking shows slow speed and a long way to go. Safe trip back is more important!</p>&mdash; Chris B - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) <a href="https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/719238849071853568">April 10, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Sounds like they're having to go slower than expected. I'm sure there are kinks to work out with regard to hauling a 20 story rocket 100 miles through 10+ foot waves.

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Do whatever you want face. I love this shit but have nothing to add. If you post more I'll read it. If not, cool.

It's a great thread DaFace. Good for The House.

Thanks for the input, all. It's a small sample, which isn't surprising, but sounds like we're in about the right place. I might do a little more in between launches for stuff like Gwen's (SpaceX president) talk at a convention in a couple weeks that might give us some ideas of what's coming down the road, but otherwise I'll just try and do as I have been - bump the thread a few days out from a launch and post cool stuff until the news slows down again.

I'm gonna delete the poll too since we don't need it up there forever.

Nice set of pics from the ISS photographers here. A couple of my favorites:

http://i.imgur.com/RuQ35QL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/U9U0dVL.jpg

By all means keep going DaFace.

Next launch date is solidified at April 28th.

Found on the SpaceX Reddit. Thought it was pretty cool for those curious about the ASDS return trip.

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Any time I feel like I'm a big nerd about this stuff, I peruse the SpaceX subreddit and see things like people about to drive a couple hours at 2am to try and catch the ship coming back into port.