The Falcon 9 launch was successful!!!
Video below.
Damn cool stage separation!
The Falcon 9 - heavy expendable launch vehicle developed privately by SpaceX launched successfully from Cape Canaveral today!
This is BIG news.
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There will be no Falcons in the Super Bowl, only Ravens, this year. But, there has been a lot of talk about Falcons lately so I jotted down a few notes and thought I'd share them with you.
tags: peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus,
tags: book review, Lift, animal training
UPDATE: We suck. They're pretty good. We do not deserve to win. If by some chance we do manage to win, we should not accept it. We suck.
... is going pretty well. We are losing by only a small amount.
Well, I have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed in the bland, NASA-style soundtrack. From a commercial space venture, I was expecting Arena Rock and a pro-wrestling announcer.
"Are you ready for some SpaceFLIIIIIIIIIIIIITE!?"
* chungachungachungachungachungachungachung *
I suspect that the long-term implications of SpaceX's successful launch is that, in ten years' time, Libertarians will deny that government agencies ever played a successful role in space exploration.
On the plus side, Robert Heinlein's body has stopped spinning in its grave, which should be some consolation to the mouldering corpses on either side of him.