Apollo served it's purpose of sending men to the moon. NASA tried to go to lesser expensive Near Earth Orbit space stations where crews could do science longer in space with Sky lab hoping to eventually prove long distance missions to Mars, etc but the money and excitement wasn't there. People wanted to solve issues on Earth which are still brewing today. Plus people love low taxes. Hard to do unless you are a private company like SpaceX is.

It is interesting that NASA has gone back to the Apollo era with their SLS system.

I hope Musk can pull it off. There is no reason we shouldn't have a base on the Moon, a space station around the moon and a long distance craft that can ferry men back and forth from Mars and beyond.

Boring.

Here's a pic of re-entry taken by the ISS:

https://icdn5.digitaltrends.com/imag...-640x427-c.jpg

To be fair, it pretty much sounds like they are chalking up FH as a mistake and are moving on pretty quickly. I'm excited to see it fly, but it's not on the critical path anymore, and I'll bet it flies no more than 5-10 times.

Sounds like Falcon Heavy isn't gonna happen in 2017.

http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/or...-heavy-lc-39a/

"We are targeting no earlier than the end of 2017 for Falcon Heavy’s inaugural flight from Launch Complex 39A in Florida."

I mean, yeah, it is. Falcon is definitely a play on the word to insinuate "****ing".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)

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Elon didn't come up with the name - reddit did years ago when it was nothing but a vague rumor. It's a play on the BFG 9000 from Doom in the 90's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_(weapon)

So, sure, people can call it the Big Falcon Rocket if that makes them feel better, but it's pretty clear that that's not what redditors were thinking. And as for Elon himself, keep in mind he's the same guy who intentionally named his first three cars so that they spell out SEX. ROFL

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Apparently Gwynne at least is rebranding it. But we all know the truth.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Evidently, Shotwell is calling BFR “Big Falcon Rocket”. We got a chuckle out of that.</p>&mdash; Jeff Foust (@jeff_foust) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/915962663234043909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Also, SES has been bumped to the 11th.

Heads up bump for the early birds tomorrow.

Alarm already set!

Launch incoming.

Good landing. Time for stage 2 to coast for a while.

ho hum

'nuther day, 'nuther landing

nuthin' ta see here

reddit stream discussion thinks there may be a fire on JRTI, apparently one of the engines didn't shut down after landing?

I didn't notice anything on the webcast

I thought I heard something on the call out about a fire. Surely they have a fire suppression system on the drone ship, though.

Supposedly they have water cannons on board, I've just never seen them used. I'm assuming it's a non-issue.