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SpaceX is targeting Thursday, November 9 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s 29th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-29) mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The instantaneous launch window is at 8:28 p.m. ET with a backup launch opportunity available on Friday, November 10 at 8:05 p.m. ET. A live webcast of this mission will begin on X @SpaceX about 30 minutes prior to liftoff. Watch live. HERE or on NASA TV. This is the second flight of the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-7. Following stage separation, Falcon 9 will land at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1). CRS-29 is the second flight for this Dragon spacecraft, which previously flew CRS-26 to the space station. After an approximate 32-hour flight, Dragon will autonomously dock with space station Saturday, November 11 at approximately 5:20 a.m. ET.
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I'll keep an eye out Rock.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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SpaceX is targeting Thursday, November 9 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s 29th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-29) mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The instantaneous launch window is at 8:28 p.m. ET with a backup launch opportunity available on Friday, November 10 at 8:05 p.m. ET. A live webcast of this mission will begin on X @SpaceX about 30 minutes prior to liftoff. Watch live. HERE or on NASA TV. This is the second flight of the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-7. Following stage separation, Falcon 9 will land at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1). CRS-29 is the second flight for this Dragon spacecraft, which previously flew CRS-26 to the space station. After an approximate 32-hour flight, Dragon will autonomously dock with space station Saturday, November 11 at approximately 5:20 a.m. ET. To me, this is impressive. As kid, when I grew launching ANY rocket was BFD. Now, we are to the point of almost boringly routine, AUTOMATED launches, docking, and landings of re-usable assemblies... Wow...
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It's the booster landing and reuse that still boggles my mind. I was with NASA when every top engineer KNEW such a thing was impractical if not impossible. Boy were they ever wrong.
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Compared to 1958, when we could not even launch a basketball into orbit, this all is a miracle. I watched a few screwed up launches and they were not science fiction, this is. Plus a real embarrassment for the it can never be done crowd, that burned up Billions if not Trillions on reentry of their space junk.
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it."
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It's the booster landing and reuse that still boggles my mind. Same. When I see videos of the boosters landing I know that by this point such a thing is boringly reliable for SpaceX, but it still amazes me that it is even possible.
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