Geez, I gather Elon Musk is behind this in conjunction with NASA. I sure dont know much, but I watched em launch and it was cool as sh!t, makes You feel a bit like a kid again...........joe

Geez, I gather Elon Musk is behind this in conjunction with NASA. I sure dont know much, but I watched em launch and it was cool as sh!t, makes You feel a bit like a kid again...........joe

It was very cool. And now they are headed to the international space station to join others and I think will stay maybe months though I believe that is not determined yet. This lays it out for you.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/29/21273708/spacex-launch-nasa-commercial-crew-dragon-mission

So nice to watch a launch again.

Damn shame it was ruined by the presence of the orange buffoon and his boot licking sidekick pence.

I am just happy it went of safely.

Please somebody splane to me briefly what this rocket launch and this SpaceX stuff is all about??.............thanks.......joe

Private companies partnering with NASA. This mission is to send two astronauts to the international space station.

There is another company, Stratolaunch that is working with the military and others. They can refuel drones from the air. They fly thru the stratosphere layer of our atmosphere at up to speeds of Mach 8, which is 8 times the speed of sound.

Tons of stuff going on because we have meteorites that will come in and crash into earth and change many things on the planet. When you see red rain it is from iron oxide from meteorite dust and also from comets tails. We had 13 asteroids go by in the last two days. The usual number in a week is 2 or 3. Two were close, one was 100,000 miles away which is half the distance to the moon.

The launch of Space X was due to all the debris and these things.

[Edited on 5/30/2020 by gina]