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I'd like to see them launch manned flights from Vandenberg. Enough with these KSC launches. And land either off the California Coast or out near Edwards.
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musk should move spacex to huntsville or florida, and tesla to ok city and give the finger to newsom pillosi, waters and schitt
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@Julius. Vandenberg is just for mil launches so as cool as it might be to something local; I just don't see it happening. I did get to see one launch a few miles from the base once. Quite a sight.
@Face As much as I agree with you on the crowd of stupid that runs California. I'll leave that to Elon Musk.
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Space X Night Launch from Vandenberg, Twin Booster landing...
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Counting Down.....
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About 1:30 pm our time. If the weather holds.
And to think I could have gone to work at Space X 5 years ago. I didn't want to add another 30 miles to my 130 round trip as it was.
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can we load pillosi in as a last minute passenger
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lol face.
Scrubbed the launch due to weather....bummer 
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@AF Same. No regrets for me though things turned out for the better.
@Face. No! I don't want the thing explode from BSO. 😁
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1) Manned flights from Vandenberg?!?!?!....Really?!?!....you kidding, right?! (please be!)
2) And Vandenberg is ONLY used for military launches?!?! Really?!?!?!.....You sure?!?!
smh
1) delta-V and other numerous reasons.....
2) Boy I sure wonder what NASA and all the commercial launches I worked from Vandy think they got away with.
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Space is no go!
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@OC Harley. Just minor oversights on my part. What do you mean I totally missed decades worth of civilian launches? :-)
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+ Keeping foot in my mouth just in case I missed anything obvious.
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LOLOLOL....Nah....no worries. Just a few.....dozen or so launches (NASA and commercial). Just trying to make sure....the correct stuff is said!! All good, sir!
PS - cuz it really bugs this guy when things are posted authoritatively with.....errors! O
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Counting down.....take two
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Crossing fingers!
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Elon Musk is a fucking idiot.
But that launch was amazing.
They're going 6,000 miles/hr.
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Yeah most billionaires are pretty stupid.
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Very cool. Held my breath watching that. Still amazed how technology has advanced that you can have a first stage land back at a tiny target at sea.
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Stupid is when a billionaire decides to move his company out of CA because it just sucks to try and operate a business here.
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^^^^like so many businesses in the past 15 years.
I have lost at least 4 clients who just gave up trying to deal with a broken Workers Compensation system, excessive taxation, stupid regulations and bureaucratic red tape at every turn.
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^ The workers comp system is out of control! I finally moved my headquarters to Austin so all the money flows through Texas. Stupidly the texas doesn't require companies to have workers comp, I still carry it and my workers comp bill dropped by over 75%!!!
Should have done this years ago. Still do most of my business in California though.
Atticus Finch
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it was an amazing launch, reminds me of working on the shuttles back in the 80's and 90's
once again elon musk put the gov't to shame being the first private enterprise to accomplish space flight, billions cheaper than nasa has done in the past
of course those cost plus contracts were certainly lucrative for us working stiffs
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^ Have to remember that there was no 'Space Program' until JFK, so NASA essentially developed everything from rocket tech to using computers. All Musk has done is taken that and improved on it with new technology which is A LOT easier then developing it from scratch.
Who knows where the space program would be if the dems hadn't killed it.
Atticus Finch
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My dad worked on the Apollo projects. The space program really revolutionized compute technology. You would be shocked at how simple the Apollo guidance computer was.
Today there is a big deal made about this being "private sector"... back in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo projects it was all Aerospace companies building the individual rocket booster stages with NASA money.
I guess now it's more privately funded. The Dems would kill that as well.
We need to be up there guarding our communities satellites before someone starts taking them out. It's not just for fun anymore.
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^ communications satellites
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You'd be shocked of the simplicity of the Space Shuttle computer and display systems too, as they were initially not that far removed from Apollo. I worked on the Shuttle upgrades in the 90s, one of my uncles worked on the Shuttle heat shield tiles in the 70's, and another uncle was one of the people yelling not to launch Challenger in '86,
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HotRod, did your uncle work at Morton-Thiokol?
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No, Julius, he did not work a Morton-Thiokol. He was a NASA guy.
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Back in 82 I saw Columbia and Challenger land at Edwards.
I was in class during the 86 Challenger launch, and my teacher was in tears as we watched the explosion unfold live on TV.
And then seeing Columbia break apart in 2003 was again very difficult to watch.
I'm glad those guys made it up to ISS okay.
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