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Post-launch, I have four kids that are enamored with Starman's travels...and rockets and space and galaxies and the speed of sound and atmosphere and gravity and boosters and entry burns and drone ships and gps and WHY and HOW... :bugeye:

That right there is the most precious payload the rocket carried, our imagination.

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But then, I'm thinking why a Tesla, why not a satellite with medical experiments that could be life saving, or any other kind of payload that would benefit humanity?

Engaging people's enthusiasm benefits humanity.

The interest in this particular launch has been enormously larger than any other launch in recent memory.

It was as if we took the very first step to Mars. And indeed, we kind of did.

Ultimately, Mars is not about technology, it is about the collective will of the people. If we want it to happen, we can make it happen.

We all have the advantage of hindsight so say something more "useful" should have been done because it was a success. But we also have to consider the issues if the rocket had failed. Blowing up a car doesn't set us back that far, and SpaceX can take the loss of the rocket and try again. But if it blows up a viable payload, then what was an experiment is now a true failure.

This is why first launches of rocket systems carry no truly useful payloads. This was true for even the Space Shuttle, where the payload was just an instrument package to measure performance and other sensors.

The Space Shuttle, BTW, is the only rocket system ever test launched with a crew. No other rocket has ever been test launched with people aboard. The first shuttle flight was nearly 37 years ago.

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The Falcon rockets blew up with satellites, they were insured, but Jack brings out an important observation, the car sparked enthusiasm among young people; a definite benefit.

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With today’s youth, he should have sent up an I-phone. That seems to be the only thing that excites them.

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With today’s youth, he should have sent up an I-phone. That seems to be the only thing that excites them.

Take a look at the pictures of who space-x is. It’s almost all young people designing, operating, making it happen. While you’re busy complaining about these youngsters, they are leading the charge into new ventures in space. Who cares if they have an iPhone in their hand while they do it?


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Post-launch, I have four kids that are enamored with Starman's travels...and rockets and space and galaxies and the speed of sound and atmosphere and gravity and boosters and entry burns and drone ships and gps and WHY and HOW... :bugeye:

That right there is the most precious payload the rocket carried, our imagination.

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I wonder how many boys and girls will go into Engineering fields because of these amazing actions.
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As mentioned, Musk is great at marketing.

Not quite sure that is the main thing.

Musk is great at being rich, and then using his money for visionary things. It takes either a lot of courage, or a bit of insanity, probably both, to start a private business with the ultimate goal of taking humans to another planet. I mean, that's chutzpah if ever I saw it.

If he didn't have the money and the technical expertise to actually do it, we'd think he's a lunatic (and some do).

He's a modern Howard Hughes in that regard, though seemingly a bit more mentally stable.

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To be fair, Elon has not suffered multi plane crashes.

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I happened to be flying by the SpaceX test facility near McGregor, TX this morning while they were testing a rocket engine:


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Speaking to Mike C.'s point about imagination:

When my son was in grade school in the 90's during the shuttle era, he was quite engrossed as most kids are at that age in animated cartoons of various types. We also watched a number of "real" shuttle launches on TV which he enjoyed. In time, he became an aerospace engineer.

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Another successful SpaceX launch this morning from Vandenberg. On April 2, they will launch from the Cape to resupply the ISS.


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I wonder how many boys and girls will go into Engineering fields because of these amazing actions.[/quote]

I just got my daughter and 3 friends a tour of SpaceX. All high school seniors. They saw countless people just a few years older than themselves building rockets. 3 of them are going into engineering and couldn’t contain their excitement for what they saw. It was my 4th tour and I’m still amazed by what they are doing.


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did they catch the nose cone or not ?


Missed again. Fairing creating too much turbulence for the paranoids. Sounds like they’re going to do some more testing out in the desert.


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The SpaceX website just went live for this launch today. Watch it live.


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