SpaceX just made history.

[zachary]

STRYC
you are probably more up to speed than I am. I read where they slightly over shot mars and it is headed to astroid belt?

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
12h12 hours ago
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Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt.

I thought it would take a looong time to get there? Diagram shows already there?

[sc281]

[Strychnine]

Elon confirmed that the core stage was lost during landing.

"...it hit the water at 500km/hr and about 100m away from the ship."

That's 310 mph. LOL. I hope there's video of that.




Also, from /r/showerthoughts

Kim Jong-un at some point had to sit down and reflect upon the fact that he is engaging in a flexing contest with a country that just had a civilian send a rocket into space, with his car on it.

[Strychnine]

Wow, just fucking wow.

That shot of the two boosters landing at the same time looks fake.

So fucking cool

[Wicked98Snake]

Wow, just fucking wow.

That shot of the two boosters landing at the same time looks fake.

[Sgt Beavis]

Elon confirmed that the core stage was lost during landing.

[Sgt Beavis]

Livestream of Starman. I wonder how long this will broadcast

It will supposedly last until sometime after the next burn of the 2nd stage. I think that is in about 4 hours. I think they'll keep it going as long as they get a signal.

[Sgt Beavis]

SpaceX press conference starting soon. The video stream is here:

[Craizie]

Well, that's the owner. Since the three of us at the texas shop have been playing the waiting game on parts to roll in for customers we've had a lot of down time. Apparently we were killing the network streaming 1080p60 on three machines for 8hrs a day. Oops.

Ahh. Me, IT guy, and few others are on our own network for " testing " purposes.

[HarrisonTX]

Livestream of Starman. I wonder how long this will broadcast

That is so fucking cool

[svauto-erotic855]

Musk sure knows how to put on a show. Normally they use concrete ballast for a test flight and given what the flight cost sticking a POS car in the nose vs concrete didn't raise the cost by much.

[46Tbird]

Hasn't gotten old yet lol

Holy shitballs. HEAVY METAL!!!

(skip to :50 if you want)

[Mysticcobrakilla]

Shit is fucking awesome!

[Fatass]

Always make friends with the IT guy(s) where ever you go.

Well, that's the owner. Since the three of us at the texas shop have been playing the waiting game on parts to roll in for customers we've had a lot of down time. Apparently we were killing the network streaming 1080p60 on three machines for 8hrs a day. Oops.

[Strychnine]