Aborted.
Bum.
Who can now go home...unless Trumpy insists on a quick rally speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1gtaUnvxNE.
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Made a note in my diary today....simply said Bugger!
All again on Saturday folks !!
That sucks, was really looking forward to that! Bring on the weekend!
I thought the takeoff was amazing and my wife and I went into the garden to watch it fly over the UK...
After a while we realised we had found a recording of one of the Falcon rockets
Well that must have been some disappointment for the two guys, having sat there all that time! With the re-scheduled lift off time I don't suppose we'll have a chance to see it going over.
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
They did look very Blake’s 7, they could have sprayed the wellies silver for maximum effect.
Just to keep up the excitement here's a pic taken from my Son's back yard last year.
Cheers,
Neil.
^^^ That's a lovely pic. :-)
Don't hold your breath...the weather is iffy once again (link):
A slight chance of showers through late morning, then a chance of showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms early in the afternoon. Showers and thunderstorms becoming likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 10 to 15 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent.
With a launch time of 15h22 local it's time to cross everything.
If they have to scrub today, they can try again tomorrow at 15h00 EDT (20h00 BST 21h00 CEST) but the weather forecast is not dissimilar.
So if it goes ahead today what time is that BST and I’m assuming on the same path over the UK?
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Pretty sure it's 8.22pm if this converter is correct.
http://www.timebie.com/std/edt.php?q=15
Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Link:
Some 23 minutes after launch, the Crew Dragon will pass over Europe, along this trajectory (times are in UT: add one hour to get BST and 2 hours to get CEST):
One way to install confidence in your astronauts, test a space X rocket before launch day....
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...-explodes-test
I found it by tracking down the source of the photo in thieuster's post...#26.
Awesome! Purple and blue sparkly dinosaur too LOL gotta love their antics.
Is it just me or are they wearing Dobbies wellies?
That was fantastic, though disappointing that the feed cut out for the falcon landing on the drone ship. Good luck to Doug and Bob.
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Has anyone got a link for a live tracker. Might we get to see it on its second orbit of the earth?
Great to watch btw, we had our 5 year old watching. I was so nervous hoping everything went ok. Luckily it did.
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Brilliant, I watched it with my 13 year old son and I made sure we wore the only watches you can when man goes into space..
Not everything Elon Musk does is commendable but you have to admire what he and his team have achieved at SpaceX, not only launching humans in to space but reusable rockets too. Best wishes for the rest of Doug and Bob's journey.
www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=CrewDragon#TOP
Edit Works for me:
1) set your location double clicking on the map
2) click the button Predict Passes located under the maps
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Awesome!! Just seen it travel across the south western sky, very bright for such a small craft..
Wow. We’ve had a very clear view of it going over. Great to see
Question - would the Dragon have been brighter than the ISS? I was following on the satflare link posted above, though I saw the ISS at about the right predicted time but couldn’t see anything tailing it. I assumed it was the ISS as I thought the sun reflecting on its solar panels would make it incredibly bright?
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