Anybody watching the launch? Anybody have a good link for video?
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I lost track of time and just missed it. I’ll have to catch the recap…
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So far so good. Milestones to come…
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Perhaps the dark side of the moon is where all the aliens hang out! 
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Yes. I watched the launch and followed it until just now when they stopped streaming.
Good to see that they got it off smootly.
Wish they would have continued until the apogee burn was complete.
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Still seems live to me. They have comm problems apparently. I missd the solar array deployment but it seems to be up…?
Why isn’t there " Hollywood Live" or something up there? We’d get everything!
“Solar Normal”
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'Is there anybody out there..
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I watched the moon landing in 1969 and walking on the moon, and we were knocking golf balls around on the moon in 1971, we used to be pretty impressive.
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man…I still can’t believe they would have been brave enough to be swinging a golf club up there, lol…like, “whoops…” crack eh…sorry buddy
I was at work but had my phone streaming and stopped everyone around me for the couple minutes of launch. So exciting!!
On the other hand I was astounded that literally no one, of those around me, had any idea that it was happening or even what was happening. I’m a big science geek with a science background and college education. So maybe I’m a bit biased, but it leaves me feeling… concerned for humanity that so few people have any knowledge of what’s happening or how important these things are.
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Space may be the final frontier but its made in a hollywood basement.
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Hey, Capricorn One…
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Could you imagine if Lewis and Clark had actually just been chilling in their back yards, sipping moonshine and paying actual mappers (or natives) for their knowledge or maps, then selling those stories and maps to pay for more knowledge and maps? Then once in a while they’d submit some picture to “document” their “progress”, or actually take a vacation to go on a cross country excursion so they could take a quick look at what they had been “mapping”?
That would be kind of funny if that had happened.
Lewis and Martin did that back in the '60s…
Very poor television coverage of the actual launch.
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Do you mean broadcast TV? I watched on the NASA YouTube channel. I thought is was pretty good coverage. I had a slight problem with the two commentators that they used. But other than that I thought they did a pretty good job.
Broadcast and cable channels. Screen went black after engines fired and missed the first few seconds of liftoff. Then they missed the boosters separating. Back in the day they used to always show altitude, speed and distance downrange. None of that for this launch.
All of that stuff was on the NASA channel. They had little gauges showing speed, distance and altitude onscreen.
They followed it through booster separation and beyond. But I guess the mainstream media just don’t care that much these days.
It is a shame, especially when it was a real milestone launch this time.
OTH, I was disappointed to learn that they are still using engines from the shuttle era.. In fact a couple of the engines were actually used on the shuttle.
And even with that the system is horribly expensive and it took well over ten years to make it ready for it’s initial launch. We haven’t progressed that far.
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As has been reported many times, that organization moves at snails pace and overprices/thinks most everything. Frustrating.
Considering how relatively short our lifespans are we will likely not see anything stellar in our time here.
In the 1970’s the press was saying we would be Mars and beyond by 2000, flying cars, one pill for all your nutritional needs, etc. All BS.
As far a progression, the rocket technology had it’s brainpower heyday from Operation Paperclip forward starting in 1945 and it didn’t come from our homeland here in USA.
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