Space X Falcon 1 (Flight 4)

[Ondelendo]

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[matthewakian2]

Cool.

[tenkate81]

I thought these days were over after the late 60's; no more of Americans striving for some crazy sweet goals. I hope my great grand children won't be shackled to this planet, because SpaceX, hopefuly, will make it possible to go for a real ride! Thanks ladies and gentlemen! I hope you want to test out some ordinary americans and not some super athletic astronauts some day. I'm sure not all bazillionair's are trim and fit. Thanks!

[w8ting4fri]

i want to work for this company.. as an astronaut

[mrnewagemotor]

I felt the same way that I did when I wasa kid when I watched the Apollo rocket take off for the moon ! BEAUTIFUL !!!

[detibry]

nom nom nominal 

[wardderrick]

What's with the swinging going on at 6:00Min? CM/CG changes or is guidance just hunting around??

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

Congratulations again for making complete fools of NASA. Not only are your launches cheaper, but have also killed fewer people. It's sad that people thought that only a bloated bureacracy had the means necessary to get into space. To actual professionals, it's apparently not nearly as hard as NASA made it look through their incompetence. I can only wonder how much they've held us back.

[Idiomatick]

NASA just gave spacex a 1.6billion dollar contract :) Be happy.

[Idiomatick]

Err Nasa space shuttle has a record of 127/128 successful launches. I guess you were comparing to early NASA. Problem is that NASA launches cost something like 5~6x what spacex launches are projected at.

[GenevaSuspension]

There are no humans on that rocket...present a whole other challenge.

[pdutube]

You are the fool. This launch is even to where the Mercury program was back in the early 1960s. SpaceX hasn't put a human in space. NASA did it without the computer technology you write your trash on and without the hard won experience that SpaceX can simply take, because NASA and its contractors did it first. Stop trashing the pioneers. Brave souls paid for this in blood.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

I have nothing against the engineers and astronauts who apply themselves and risk their lives for science. I am against the parasitic bureaucracy pushing for flights when the engineers know there are problems. I am against the concept of a "space race," cheapening discovery by putting it at the level of a political pissing contest. I am against the disgusting graft that multiplies the cost of every activity tenfold, a kind of tax on exploration that stalls us and kills our ambitions.

[contributor34]

@crazyhorse...then get your butt in governement and run it correctly or shut the fuck up. your just a little kid sitting on his father's shoulder bragging how much more you can see.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

Your comment fails utterly on two independently pathetic levels:

1. You can't actually run the government unless you're elected. So that means the 300 million Americans who aren't politicians should consider shutting the fuck up if they have something to complain about.

2. A little kid sitting on his father's shoulder WOULD be able to see more than his friends. What the fuck is your point?

[contributor34]

Point is, you're the kid thinking you are so superior to your father since your up higher and can see more. You're too stupid to realize the sweat and sacrifice it took to get you up there, the doctor bills, the ballet lesons, the sex change operation, the labotomy, etc all you think is how easily you climbed up there and think what a dumb fuck your father is 'cause it didn't cost you a dime but it left your father financially strapped.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

Ok, so in part 2 of this story are you going to prove you're capable of having a rational thought? It will eventually tie into my views of NASA at some point, right?

[contributor34]

God, where should I start? In 500 words how do point out the historical facts of huge initial costs and outlays to make a break through in technologies and gain the insight that later on allows industry to venture in those areas: jet engines, long range flight of heavy cargo, powerful reliable rockets, integrated circuits, guidance systems, satellites, sophisticated materials,...many of these come from NASA and its contractors. Now industry benefits, the kid on the fathers back.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

Oh...I see. You were intending to approximate the metaphor of "standing on the shoulders of giants." Except you did so in a way that couldn't have been more ham handed if you had spent a whole week fist-fucking Miss Piggy. Now, since you fucking asked, start with the "historical fact" of "huge initial costs" and tell me why it's rational to use a demonstrably bloated graft system as a baseline for any kind of cost.

[contributor34]

I'm waiting for you to prove you're capable of having a rational thought. Otherwise I might as well be pen buddies with a moron which is what you seem to be.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

Ok, so what you're telling me is that you CAN'T find a reason why you would ever use government overhead as a baseline for initial costs. This has left you at such a complete loss for words that you're having to regurgitate an insult I directed at you just the other day. You asked where you should start, I gave you a starting point, and you choked.

[contributor34]

Part1: No, what i'm saying is that your observations are so moronic and lacking in detail that discussion is pointless knowing that a moron is on the otherside. Suffice it to say that all these years that NASA and the government have been employing great engineers and scientist to push metalurgical, engineering and rocket science forward, private enterprises have not chosen to pursue these expensive endeavors knowing full well the difficulties and expenses.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

See, you've again mentioned those "huge initial costs." I'll explain this to you as I would a child. You see, when private enterprises do R&D, they tend to try to get their results quickly and milk the end result for everything that it's worth. When a government does anything, the incentive is for everyone to slow the process as much as possible to milk every contract for every cent possible. That's why you'd have to be a complete moron to use the cost of any government endeavor as a baseline.

[contributor34]

Part 2: The private industries that didn't attempt these science and engineering challenges didn't opt out because they "thought" it couldn't be done by their companies, the opted out because they "knew" it would take an entity like NASA and the Pentagon to hammer out the science. I've worked with negative ass holes like you and believe me employers try their best to weed out negative unproductive cancers like you in the interview process because everybody hates the poison you dish out.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

They opted out because it's pointless to invest in something that taxpayers are forced to pay for anyways. It makes more sense to hire lobbyists than engineers. As long as you've got a few headquarters in the right cities and hire in the right congressional districts, you can suck the government teat to your heart's content while producing the bare minimum you can get away with.

[contributor34]

Only taxpayers could afford the space race and taxpayers benefitted tremendously from this investment in the form of technology, jobs and dominance in industry. Yes industry tapped into taxpayer paid for knowledge, but industry is people and jobs. Any company that only has lobbyist couldn't do diddly squat without engineers and employees as well. Eliminate the "forced" pursuits and you have a third rate country uncompetitive and unable to defend itself militarily or economically.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

Lobbyist factories do tend to hire engineers and scientists and give them plenty of busywork. You have to keep up appearances, right? In fact, the more people you hire, the more "jobs" you can claim would be lost if you don't keep getting contracts/funding. And you get an army of potentially angry voters you can use as leverage against any politician talking about "austerity measures." But now companies really can survive on nothing but lobbyists. Look at Goldman Sachs.

[contributor34]

Now your just rambling on. NASA pursuits have benefitted US industry and our economy our products our educational systems our capabilities our military our science our dominance. None of this is permanent but with out this investment in scientific and technological infrastructure, other countries are and will push ahead and dominate all serendipidous discoveries as well as intended discoveries. Without wise investment in the federal level, we are crap.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

I'm not saying that we haven't benefited from what the engineers at NASA and their contractors have done, but what they have accomplished they have done in SPITE of the system, not because of it. There are no discoveries or engineering tasks that are beyond the means of the private sector. You haven't said anything which comes remotely close to backing up this claim other than to restate and repeat it.

[contributor34]

The proof is in the pudding. Just look back at history and tell me who has led the race to space. Who has laid down the expensive aerospace infrastructue...it has been tax payers in every country...the mamoth share that is. We could have waited for private industry to start it and lay it down, but we would still be waiting. The communications technology we enjoy now would most likely be non existant as many other technologies.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

If you break the legs of the other racers, you can't lose the race.

[contributor34]

Or a better metaphor would be, if the other racers are more interested in the bake sale, you can't lose the race.

[CrazyHorseInvincible]

Really? Are you claiming there's no commercial interest in space, now?

[racingsssnake]

congratulations spacex

[mikew909]

cant believe this wasnt bigger story in the media, its achievement dwarf branson and rutans

[MrFireAss]

meh, the american populace wants more H3's , tanning beds, and violence...

screw space...

sad isnt it...

[MrFireAss]

you likem that old?? 40 is my cut off limit bro... shes 60something....

[ihaverabiestoo]

We like space there just aren't enough laser gun fights up there yet. Don't worry America will warm up.

[JanusChrist]

This did not get the media coverage that it so rightfully deserved.

[420messiah]

I teared up starting at 2:50.

[mike66977]

look what happens in 8 minute of flight in space between jet engine and earth surface, circular object appears, rotates then there is something like blast and object disappeares. looks like ufo:)

[JanusChrist]

It's debris you tard!

[5krif]

i watched this live, it was so amazing- this is history, the second age of man's reach for space.

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[oryansnebula]

It never ceases to amaze me how the comment column always turns into a hate fest. It makes me disdainfully laugh...and then a single tear drips from the corner of my eye.

Congratulations guys and gals on what will soon be leading the world in launch sales.

Now on to Falcon 9...

[Scientifikally]

"Gilligan, little buddy YOU can't fly..."

[Charbax]

Wow cool..

[plarkmoby]

Excellent. Well done.

[jklmuk]

well done spacex!!! Fourth time lucky. I can't believe there is so much content on the website about reliability when there current success rate is 25%. You just have to laugh!! But well done guys.

[Tacobrigade]

The failure of the last rocket was due to a timing error on separating the upper stage.

They corrected it since then, and it would be confounding to give it a success rate.

Also, giving a sucess rate when the company hasn't put a rocket into space until now isn't going to be accurate for long.

Make sure you know your stats before acting like like someone you're not.

[xkaliboor]

thought they said this was the third rocket they launched, not the fourth.

maybe i heard it wrong.

so that means its a 33% chance. its a lot higher than 25%.

[jklmuk]

read title

[xkaliboor]

i watched it from the site they posted this on, not from youtube xD they typed 3, not 4. and im sure i HEARD 3 as well. lol

but nevermind =]

fact is. they're up there. WE'RE up there.

[SpaceFlightVideos]

Guys this is the 4th flight of the Space X Falcon 1 Vehicle.

Falcon 1 Flight 1: Engine Fail T+25 Seconds

Falcon 1 Flight 2: Premature engine shutdown T+7:30.

Falcon 1 Flight 3: 1st and second stage collision.

Falcon 1 Flight 4: This One! (Success)

[kahara00]

Congrats!