SpaceX Falcon Heavy static fire successful

Unconfirmed launch date of February 6th, with a window between 1330 and 1630. Backup date is February 7th.

a reply to: lordcomac

Musk announced on twitter a little while back they plan on launching in "a week or so"

Its the "or so" part which usually gets you .......

a reply to: firerescue

They've got another launch that's in the way.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Would love to see SPACE X launch a manned Dragon on a lunar trajectory for the 50th Anniversary of APOLLO 8

Don't know if have enough time to get everything setup by then

a reply to: firerescue

Probably not. It would be cool as hell if they could though.

a reply to: Zaphod58
yea unfortunately my kids come home from school at 2:30. I never had a chance! I saw the landing in a recent thread though, check em out!

originally posted by: Jungian

No words to describe this. Obviously the most awesome landing I ever saw. Watch the volume ^

a reply to: worldstarcountry

Great video of an amazing event. However, of all the vids I have seen of this, this one for me is tinged with sadness. That Stoneheng-looking thing in the right-foreground is the abandoned launch-pad 34. Built to launch the Saturn I & IB rockets to test Apollo capsules in Earth orbit, it is the site of the Apollo 1 fire that killed Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967.

There's a lot of history sitting around that there cape. I'm glad to see it is still being made.