Are you excited?

Lots of cool space stuff today!

http://news.yahoo.com/total-lunar-eclipse-moon-tetrad-163514251.html

SpaceX launch

Mars closing within 59 million miles

total Lunar eclipse of the heart

hard yet?

4/14/2014 12:34:59 PM

ha i was just about to post a thread about the SpaceX launch...

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/04/spacex-crs-3-dragon-new-milestones/

I'm not sure I can stay up late enough to watch the eclipse

4/14/2014 1:20:40 PM

yeah me either.

im sad its going to be so late/early in the morning.

i caught the last one a few years ago and had some cool pictures.

4/14/2014 1:31:29 PM

I'd like to stay up but damn, 3-4 am?

aren't there like 3 more on the way in the coming months? surely they can't all be 3-4am right?

4/14/2014 1:52:16 PM

next one is in October and followed by 2 in 2015 (April / September)

4/14/2014 1:53:51 PM

3 or 4 am? Thanks Obama!

4/14/2014 1:56:06 PM

http://www.space.com/25495-spacex-delays-dragon-spacecraft-launch.html

delayed launch for several days due to helium leak.

4/14/2014 5:26:28 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65zDaDSvIww

So the Space X CRS-3 mission (Dragon on a Falcon 9) launched the other day, but i didn't get to see it live. Here's a video...

notice at the beginning it looks like the falcon 9 gets splashed with raw sewage... One of the tricks they use is to keep a small amount of water (a couple of feet) in the flame trench before launch in case there are any liquid O2 leaks that might otherwise damage the structure... well apparently they had a little bit more water standing by than usual and when the Merlin 1D engines were lit they had a profound impact on that water.

4/22/2014 8:29:41 AM

I must have been busy the past week or so. This is the first time I've even seen this thread!

4/22/2014 9:23:24 AM

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