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Had a reservation for myself and a friend who wanted to test-drive a Tesla, it was free at the time and he had no license
Anyone could reserve a test-drive from their site
Unfortunately the friend couldnât make it and since it was a dream of his and not mine, i cancelled it. Regret that a bitâŚ
From their twitter
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The boosters are deceptively large as well, this is a good image for scale
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So do we know yet? Did the center-booster make it or not?
Donât know yet.
Need to wait and see what they say officially. Sounds like they may have lost the core booster.
timestamp: 8:30
âwe lost the centre coreâ ?
Though that may refer to the signalâŚ
lulz @
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did they lose that bitch?
That was just amazing. Donât even care about the core booster, this was a brand new rocket on a testflight. And the landing of the two side boosters ⌠straight up alien invasion, thatâs what it looked like.
Iâd never have bet on an outcome like that.
Props to SpaceX.
That is pretty insane. I wonder if it is possible to land the core on the moon? They could build some serious shit
The central core booster is a launch rocket, not used to take things further than Earth orbit. The stage 2 is what carries the payload out of earth orbit, that would be what would take something to the moon in theory.
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according to local news the core did successfully land on the drone ship.
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This is gold! xD
Looks like it, yeah.
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Why arenât we seeing it elsewhere then
, but it was not immediately clear whether the central core booster touched down on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/watch-live-spacexs-colossal-falcon-heavy-may-finally-fly-today/
Unfortunately the center core didnât make it. Only one of the three engines ignited and it hit the ocean at 300 MPH.
Other than that, though, what a spectacular show. I am so glad I watched it live. Seeing the rocket lift off was amazing. Seeing the two boosters land nearly simultaneously was mind blowing.
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The Stig is going to Mars.
Also, The KSP community is really fast:
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