FYI the VP of Spacecraft Engineering at SpaceX, Joe Petrzelka is an ISU grad. His MIL is the academic advisor for Industrial Engineering.
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Oh totally missed that got rescheduled. Will have to look up the launch replay!No, Blue Origin New Glenn flew last night ...
Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first test flight
Thursday’s liftoff from Florida carried an experiment meant to orbit thousands of miles above Earth.apnews.com
Combining into one thread is ok but you have to tag what you're talking about when multiple vehicles are launching in the same time window.
He went to my HS and was a fellow "band geek" member. Awesome guy / friend. Had a perfect ACT score and had his choice of schools.
I've met him once, years ago before he was a big shot at SpaceX. My wife was in a bunch of classes with him and his wife at ISU. I hit the bar with them a couple times after they finished up finals. Seemed like a good guy at the time.
This is equal parts amazing and terrifying at the same time.
My 6th grader was very excited to watch this. He is a rocket nerd and a little annoying about it since he acts like it’s all common knowledge. Anyways he cheered louder when the chopsticks caught the booster than he has for any Iowa State game. It felt like watching something trigger a future career path tbh.
It is pretty remarkable to watch, considering when Mechazilla was first proposed I believed it was a joke.
I imagine there are going to be a number of calls and meetings on the in flight breakup today. Caused a fair amount of delays, ground stops and diversions for air traffic.
Why no? I'm assuming I'll never be able to afford such a thing, but that sounds amazing.
Seems like an incredibly inefficient way to travel, even if it were safe, which it is not.
So can the airlines sue SpaceX for causing air traffic delays and diversions? Can’t imagine those were free for them.
It is interesting that payload costs could one day be low enough that this might be considered feasible. But strapping oneself into an intercontinental ballistic missile for travel purposes seems like a high risk, low reward proposition. If there were a big market for this kind of speedy travel they never would have moth balled the Concorde.
I'm the king of human spaceflight boosters, but basically you are turning yourself into the warhead on an ICBM. Pass. I'll take the 5 or 10 hours to get there. If commercial flying really sucks, I'll take a bizjet (assuming if I can afford an ICBM ride, I can afford a bizjet ride).
That I am not sure of but there are some sizeable impacts. Was just listening to a podcast that mentioned that due to the splash down zone in the Indian Ocean Quantas is among the most impacted as it has a flight from Sydney to Johannesburg that regularly sees sizeable delay impacts.
Not efficient or safe as of today, but air travel in general wasn't efficient or safe once upon a time. No reason to believe it can't become both eventually.
