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Did you guys see this live? What were your thoughts at the time?

>>12081410
SpaceX's sloppiest landing is far better than the best landing any of its competitors could do right now.

This lame doomerposting is depressing. Post things that make/made you hopeful for space flight.

>>11703603
Meanwhile the FH is larger than any Boeing rocket currently flying.

>>11559880
That first Falcon Heavy launch was what brought my interest in space flight back. After growing up reading about all the cancelled ambitious projects before me and then seeing Constellation and Shuttle being cancelled made me think that nothing interesting in space flight would happen in my lifetime. I just sort of gave up keeping track of space flight. But seeing those boosters land and then later learning about what SpaceX has done gave me hope again.

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>>10950789
Oh for fuck sake. You guys really don't understand how much the ISS is shielded from cosmic radiation via the magnetosphere. To have something sufficiently thick enough to block long exposure detrimental radiation is to have something that isn't going to work as a window. The equivalent light that did make it through would be about on par with moonlight that we get on Earth. That might be good as a night light, but the added massive required for transparency isn't even worth it. you'd have this station with "thin" walls and monstrously thick windows that stick way out past the wall thickness.

I really wish is wasn't like that. I'd love to have space stations with permanently viewable windows that wouldn't give you cancer in a month or less. I mean how cool would that be? But, we are going to end up with what amounts to as caves in space coated in shielding and solar panels.

HOLY SHIT THAT D-D-DOUBLE LANDING!
HOLY SHIT THAT D-D-DOUBLE LANDING!
HOLY SHIT THAT D-D-DOUBLE LANDING!