“The trampoline is working”—SpaceX returns human spaceflight to America

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“The trampoline is working”—SpaceX returns human spaceflight to America

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From Ars Technica:
"The rain showers ended. The clouds parted. And so on Saturday afternoon, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket had blue skies above it during the final minutes of a countdown to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05 ... o-america/

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Re: “The trampoline is working”—SpaceX returns human spaceflight to America

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I watched the docking yesterday in realtime. That was pretty cool. Funny how NASA commentators now look like Vikings. It's a long way from the crewcuts, white shirts, and narrow black ties of the Apollo days.
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