http://www.space.com/35844-elon-mus...ment-today.html


Bill

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It is well past time to Drill, Baby, Drill!

If your June, July, August and September was like this, you might just hate summer too...

Please unload your question before you ask it unless you have a concealed harry permit.

: countdown begin cr dup . 1- ?dup 0= until cr ." Launch!" cr ;

Give a man a rocket and he will fly for a day; teach him to build and he will spend the rest of his days sanding...

I hope this happens. I'd sign up in an instant, except for the fact that my retirement acccount balance likely does not enough zeroes at the end of it.

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Lee Reep
NAR 55948

Projects: Semroc Saturn 1B, Ken Foss Designs Mini Satellite Interceptor
In the Paint Shop: Nothing! Too cold!
Launch-Ready: Farside-X, Maxi Honest John, Super Scamp

It's about Fracken time we went back to the moon. With all the info we have and the possibility of water, there could be a colony established and then stockpile the nuclear waste on the farside of the moon until it blows up and throws the moon out of it's orbit! LOL!

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If it flies, I can crash it!

He is awfully optimistic. Falcon Heavy hasn't flown. SpaceX hasn't made a manned suborbital much less orbital flight yet. I hope they can get it all done by the deadline.

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I love sanding.

Good one!

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Friends Don't let Friends Do TRF

A fly-by could be doable.

There will have to be a lot of expectation-setting for the public. "Going to the moon" means a landing for most people.

It would be neat to time the flight so they can arrive when the far side is in full sunlight; get some nice photos. Play up the "mystery."

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NAR #27085 - Oregon Rocketry - SAM

The best info I could find on short notice for Falcon Heavy 1st flight is a Saudi satellite scheduled to launch late 2017 - early 2018, and that was info from back in 2015. I found no actual scheduling for test flights, or satellite launches. That does not bode well for a manned mission to anywhere on top of a Falcon Heavy in 2018.

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I love sanding.

...especially if they cannot get Q2G2s for clustering...


Bill

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It is well past time to Drill, Baby, Drill!

If your June, July, August and September was like this, you might just hate summer too...

Please unload your question before you ask it unless you have a concealed harry permit.

: countdown begin cr dup . 1- ?dup 0= until cr ." Launch!" cr ;

Give a man a rocket and he will fly for a day; teach him to build and he will spend the rest of his days sanding...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOapKTeQJA0

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Friends Don't let Friends Do TRF

I'll believe this when I see it.
I think this timetable is overly-optimistic by AT LEAST two years.
If it was NASA doing this I would say FIVE YEARS due to their perpetual under-funding.
NASA needs funding immune from political considerations via a Constitutional Amendment.

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When in doubt, WHACK the GAS and DITCH the brake !!!

Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask what is "NORMAL" , you probably aren't !
Failure may not be an OPTION, but it is ALWAYS a POSSIBILITY.
ALL systems are GO for MAYHEM, CHAOS, and HAVOC !