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Arctic Fox 02-06-2018 01:06 PM

Falcon Heavy...
 
...lift off delayed to 14.20 due to upper level wind shear

SFSkol 02-06-2018 01:12 PM

Update: 1:08 PM ET: Launch time is now 3:10 PM, because of "clock management."

Look about due West. Should be easier to see than recent launches. Big rocket.

SFSkol 02-06-2018 01:15 PM

Update, 1:11 PM ET: Now we're at 3:15 PM. It's not looking good for a launch today. Window closes at 4:00 PM

Bjeanj 02-06-2018 01:27 PM

Thanks for update. We plan on watching. Whenever it happens, we hope it goes well. However, Musk shrugs his shoulders and says 50-50 chance of it blowing up. Hope not.

Lottoguy 02-06-2018 01:31 PM

Launch time is now 3:15 pm. Looking more and more like it will be scrubbed til tomorrow. Still could happen thou.

SFSkol 02-06-2018 01:51 PM

Update, 1:42 PM ET: After a full stop in the countdown, we're back with a 3:45 PM ET launch time.

Falcon, the size of a 20-story building, containing 27 engines and a cherry-red Tesla Roadster as its payload, is slated to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will be the maiden flight of Space X’s Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket to launch in 45 years, since NASA’s Saturn V, which last flew in 1973.

Lottoguy 02-06-2018 02:01 PM

Musk still remembers this day back in September 2015. Very strange.

Slow Motion! UFO blows up SpaceX rocket at Cape Canaveral 9/1/2016 - YouTube

Arctic Fox 02-06-2018 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SFSkol (Post 1512742)
Look about due West. Should be easier to see than recent launches. Big rocket.

Not looking due west, it won't :-)

Taltarzac725 02-06-2018 02:10 PM

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Follow their tweets!

MrGolf 02-06-2018 02:20 PM

Due East?

SFSkol 02-06-2018 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arctic Fox (Post 1512759)
Not looking due west, it won't :-)

OOOOPPPPSSS.. EAST But, then I am really, really tall.

schrdr 02-06-2018 02:51 PM

East, West? According to my calculations it should be about 120 degrees South East. Can anyone confirm that.

Henryk 02-06-2018 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arctic Fox (Post 1512759)
Not looking due west, it won't :-)

Should be east by southeast according to my SWAG.

Arctic Fox 02-06-2018 02:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SFSkol (Post 1512766)
OOOOPPPPSSS.. EAST But, then I am really, really tall.

I thought maybe you were treating it like a solar eclipse; not wanting to look straight at it

Bjeanj 02-06-2018 03:54 PM

Spectacular! We watched on both faceBook and the end of our driveway. Just watched two of three boosters return safely.


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