Friday, March 24, 2006

Holy Shit!!!!

It launched. It really launched.

Holy shit.

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13 comments:

Tony Plank said...

A shame that my streaming video didn't work...well, it worked for a second and teased me with some awesome shots.

Ed said...

Congratulations. The streaming video died a few seconds after liftoff, but I did see a view from the rocket as it ascended. Way to go guys!

rstaff said...

My video feed held in until the on-board footage started. That was purty darned cool!

Colin said...

"We did lose the vehicle," says Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX vice president of business development.

Ed said...

Dammit.

ザイツェヴ said...

This is very unfortunate and I'd like to offer SpaceXers my sympathies. Elon said before that he won't quit until after 3rd failure, so there's a hope that this setback can be overcome.

Regarding Kevin's comments, I seem to recall that Energia and Saturn V worked on the first try as well. But yes, it does not seem that majority of boosters do that.

Tony Plank said...

bummer.

My best wishes to everyone on the team. You have a lot of well wishers out here.

Gisela Giardino said...

=´(

Steve Jurvetson said...

bummer. we were very excited on the flickr blog.

latest photo I had

Steve Jurvetson said...

ericr: I thinkl you are right. I have four photos from the nose cone cam, including one later than these. I can email them to whoever is interested. Just email me at my initials at dfj.com

Unknown said...

Full video of the launch from t-10sec to impact w/ ocean:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1950&posts=1#M27148

Nasaspaceflight forum membership necessary, but free...

Unknown said...

ok, so I'll break the full URL:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums
/thread-view.asp?tid=1950&posts=1#M27148

Orlin said...

Anyway, there was liftoff!
And there must be further and succesfull ones.