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question everything

(47,544 posts)
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 04:59 PM Feb 2018

SpaceX - wow!

The biggest rocket, went up as scheduled and then, for my eyes, the two booster rockets landed right in front of our eyes as planned.

Thank you, Ali Velshi and MSNBC, for showing this and not the "presser" from the White House!

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SpaceX - wow! (Original Post) question everything Feb 2018 OP
Wasn't that cool to watch!?! So much better than watching skylucy Feb 2018 #1
Tom Costello could not contain himself, he was so excited question everything Feb 2018 #10
WOW !!!!!!!!! SamKnause Feb 2018 #2
Absolute WOW. I posted earlier in the day... IllinoisBirdWatcher Feb 2018 #3
It'd be cool if Musk got to the Moon just before he died... First Speaker Feb 2018 #7
Bravo to Elon! Staph Feb 2018 #9
Wow is right. DURHAM D Feb 2018 #4
You do know SpaceX has its own live stream of launches? malthaussen Feb 2018 #5
Yes, but in this case, having the medica - Tom Costello and Ali Velshi - question everything Feb 2018 #11
I watched it from my backyard JennyMominFL Feb 2018 #6
+1 Lucinda Feb 2018 #8

question everything

(47,544 posts)
10. Tom Costello could not contain himself, he was so excited
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 06:01 PM
Feb 2018

This is the new Apollo area for young engineers, he said.

For this member of the "Sputnik generation" this really was exciting, revisiting dreams that I thought we left in the last century.

IllinoisBirdWatcher

(2,315 posts)
3. Absolute WOW. I posted earlier in the day...
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 05:02 PM
Feb 2018

Elon Musk = Delos David Harriman

I've waited 60 years for this moment. Just WOW.

And yes, thanks to Ali Velshi for playing it twice.

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
7. It'd be cool if Musk got to the Moon just before he died...
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 05:10 PM
Feb 2018

...like DD did. I still can't read *Requiem* without tears coming to my eyes...

Staph

(6,253 posts)
9. Bravo to Elon!
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 05:19 PM
Feb 2018

And a bravo to you, too, for the DD Harriman reference! I didn't think that there were many of us around who read the early Heinlein stories and novels.


question everything

(47,544 posts)
11. Yes, but in this case, having the medica - Tom Costello and Ali Velshi -
Tue Feb 6, 2018, 06:03 PM
Feb 2018

expressing their excitement just added to the experience.

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