SpaceX launch in 23 minutes

[Jalapeñomel]

in case you had no idea...


www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aymrnzianf0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2tejtmXr4_QHAs0WZsppxcKlxM0fNRkyxCdM7zh_J_4YJWbwAY9QBKS_A

87% of people polled would go to space if they good. 

I live in the other percentage of NOPE. 

[Jalapeñomel]

I’m so sad 😩😩😩

[knx9211]

Noooo we were so excited to watch with DS. He was FASCINATED by videos I showed him of people floating around a space station earlier.

[mysteriouswife]

Can you imagine the emotions of the crew? Everyone worked so hard in these 3ish hours loading the Dragon and getting ready for take off. We will watch again on Saturday

ETA: I am meaning more of the build up today as far as the emotions. I’m aware it took years of planning for this.

[lilafowler]

Boo! 👎🏻

[readyin07]

I've been watching for hours! We were going to drive a little farther north to watch (Cape Canaveral is about an hour and a half from us). But the rain here in Florida has been tremendous this past week and my friend lives pretty close and said their forecast did not look promising. Glad they will be safe. I can't imagine the astronauts with all that adrenaline and then being like...nope.

[DotAndBuzz]

so bummed! But glad they're putting safety first.

I could barely watch when they were waving goodbye to their wives and kids. But couldn't touch them. That was rough.

I wonder if the families have been held in isolation together, so they could at least be quarantined pre-launch with their immediate family? Or if they had to stay fully separated for 2+ weeks prior to this.

Also - I'm FIRMLY in the "only as a last resort if the world was about to literally end" camp as to whether I'd go into to space. 

[VillainV]

May 27, 2020 15:24:14 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

Can you imagine the emotions of the crew? Everyone worked so hard in these 3ish hours loading the Dragon and getting ready for take off. We will watch again on Saturday

They’ve been working hard for longer than three hours 🙂. Yes, emotional, but this is par for the course, and they’re definitely used to it.

[knx9211]

May 27, 2020 15:28:41 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

so bummed! But glad they're putting safety first.

Also, I could barely watch when they were waving goodbye to their wives and kids. But couldn't touch them. That was rough.

I wonder if the families have been held in isolation together, so they could at least be quarantined pre-launch with their immediate family? Or if they had to stay fully separated for 2+ weeks prior to this.

Oh I am so glad I wasn’t tuned in for this, I would have lost it.

[dirtybella]

May 27, 2020 15:11:53 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

in case you had no idea...


www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aymrnzianf0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2tejtmXr4_QHAs0WZsppxcKlxM0fNRkyxCdM7zh_J_4YJWbwAY9QBKS_A

87% of people polled would go to space if they good. 

I live in the other percentage of NOPE. 

I am a big NOPE!

[wanderingback]

May 27, 2020 15:24:14 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

Can you imagine the emotions of the crew? Everyone worked so hard in these 3ish hours loading the Dragon and getting ready for take off. We will watch again on Saturday

Sorry I'm kind of laughing at this. I haven't been following this story, but I think people have likely been working longer than the past 3 hours to put people in space lol. 

[DotAndBuzz]

May 27, 2020 15:29:49 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

May 27, 2020 15:28:41 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

so bummed! But glad they're putting safety first.

Also, I could barely watch when they were waving goodbye to their wives and kids. But couldn't touch them. That was rough.

I wonder if the families have been held in isolation together, so they could at least be quarantined pre-launch with their immediate family? Or if they had to stay fully separated for 2+ weeks prior to this.

Oh I am so glad I wasn’t tuned in for this, I would have lost it.

It was heartbreaking. ***I'm describing it below, in case you don't want to read it. ****


They did "air hugs" from afar, then the astronauts got into the cars, and only then could the wives and kids get close. They walked up and put their hands on the windows with their dads. I was definitely crying. :*( 

[knx9211]

May 27, 2020 15:33:29 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

May 27, 2020 15:29:49 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

Oh I am so glad I wasn’t tuned in for this, I would have lost it.

It was heartbreaking. ***I'm describing it below, in case you don't want to read it. ****


They did "air hugs" from afar, then the astronauts got into the cars, and only then could the wives and kids get close. They walked up and put their hands on the windows with their dads. I was definitely crying. :*( 

Thank you for the warning which I ignored like an idiot and now kinda want to cry.

[TBM]

I had gone out to the office to remind H and was surprised when I checked out the sky, because it had been really nice (if you don't count the heat) the last time that I had been out. I mentioned the weather to DH and wondered if it was a concern, and in the time it took to walk across the courtyard they called it, so I walked back out there to tell him.

He was looking forward to seeing it from our yard since our neighbor had a tree fall and we removed a tree and some tall shrubs that all used to block the view when he tried to see launches before. .

[mysteriouswife]

May 27, 2020 15:33:14 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

May 27, 2020 15:24:14 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

Can you imagine the emotions of the crew? Everyone worked so hard in these 3ish hours loading the Dragon and getting ready for take off. We will watch again on Saturday

Sorry I'm kind of laughing at this. I haven't been following this story, but I think people have likely been working longer than the past 3 hours to put people in space lol. 

Oh definitely! I am more talking about the build up in the last few hours. They have been waiting years for this

[cmeon]

I definitely was concerned that the weather would scrub it, all day we had some nasty weather off and on (and we're pretty close to the space coast). We watch most launches from our front yard and were (cautiously) looking forward to it. Fingers crossed for better weather on the 30th!

[RoxMonster]

Hopefully they have better weather on Saturday to safely launch. We were looking forward to watching online.

And a huge NOPE for me ever wanting to go to space, even if I could. I am so claustrophobic, you wouldn't even be able to get me in the thing to begin with.

[Jalapeñomel]

16 minutes!

[DotAndBuzz]

We're watching again! I'm so SO nervous!

[isabel]

This is very cool. I haven't watched one of these before.

[spindle92]

I literally cried watching the launch.
It is a beautiful thing.

[ssmjlm]

The COO was being interviewed and I said “Look E a female is in charge!”

[icedcoffee]

May 30, 2020 14:32:29 GMT -5 spindle92 said:

I literally cried watching the launch.
It is a beautiful thing.

I bawled. I’m glad I watched alone. LOL. I’m still crying. It’s so great!!

[mcsangel2]

Was anyone else watching the feed on CNN? They totally screwed up! They must have been on a slight delay - The camera was on the cockpit during countdown and then close to T minus 10 seconds they switched to the outside view, but the rocket was already in flight! About 12 minutes later they were all "We want to show you the launch again" and they showed it properly, but dang. I was all, wait, why is it already airborne?

[stinkyfeet]

I am so glad to see I am not the only one who cries at these. I watched the last shuttle launch and my kids didn't get why I was crying. They are older now and only made fun of me a little bit.

[VillainV]

May 30, 2020 14:44:48 GMT -5 mcsangel2 said:

Was anyone else watching the feed on CNN? They totally screwed up! They must have been on a slight delay - The camera was on the cockpit during countdown and then close to T minus 10 seconds they switched to the outside view, but the rocket was already in flight! About 12 minutes later they were all "We want to show you the launch again" and they showed it properly, but dang. I was all, wait, why is it already airborne?

Discovery Channel had GREAT coverage. At least, the video was awesome. My six year old WOULD NOT stop asking all kinds of crazy questions.

[knx9211]

I thought I was going to barf. So nerve wracking.

[georgeglass]

I don't know that the not touching families is new. A friend of a friend was an astronaut in the last few years and he showed pictures of him talking to his family behind glass as part of pre-launch quarantine.

Example -
www.space.com/6628-routine-quarantine-helps-astronauts-avoid-illness-launch.html
www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Volare/Happy_in_quarantine

[RoxMonster]

It was so cool! I can't even imagine what 6000+ miles per hour feels like. Does it feel like when you're in an airplane and don't really feel like you're moving? lol

I also was struck by how they were just sitting there so calmly as they were hurtling into space. I could never be an astronaut. I would be freaking the fuck out.

[starryfish]

May 30, 2020 16:17:12 GMT -5 georgeglass said:

I don't know that the not touching families is new. A friend of a friend was an astronaut in the last few years and he showed pictures of him talking to his family behind glass as part of pre-launch quarantine.

Example -
www.space.com/6628-routine-quarantine-helps-astronauts-avoid-illness-launch.html
www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Volare/Happy_in_quarantine

I work in aerospace and this is not new. Astronauts are always quarantined before flights to reduce chance of being exposed to any sickness.