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Well unless shit gets REALLY jacked up here, but still probably out.
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SpaceX expects manned flight to ISS in 2016-2017 I've always casually paid attention to what SpaceX is up to, but I had no idea they were this far along. I'll post a few articles and videos, but here are the high points:
Here's the announcement page from SpaceX to get you started. http://www.spacex.com/news/2014/05/3...ned-spacecraft ![]() ![]() And here's a general CNN article from CNN with some videos. I'll try and post the good ones. http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/29/us/spacex-new-spacecraft/ ----- Here's an animation of the capsule re-entry and landing: Last edited by DaFace; 02-08-2015 at 05:20 PM.. |
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Here's a test flight of the main rocket landing itself. This one is way cool. I wouldn't have guessed you could have that much control using thrusters on the bottom like that.
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And here's the entire unveil event if you're in the mood for the in-depth look:
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Amazing
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They've got a long way to go, but if they can pull it off, it will DRAMATICALLY decrease the cost of space flight as we know it. |
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It is pretty ****ing cool
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Ars has some cool photos. One of the console, once rotated 180° and cropped, is now my wallpaper.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/...space-capsule/ ![]()
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yeah I was reading about this yesterday. pretty awesome elon musk is the man
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they want to 3d print everything so they can eventually print everything in space and we can build the death star
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****ing cool. Thanks for posting it!
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