Who's watching the SpaceX launch?

Launch Escape System armed.

Propellant load started.

T-12 minutes. Looking good.

The next milestone is the safety range weather check at T-7.

MECO. 

Staging.

Second stage firing now.

Looks great.

Amazing!!  

wwhat

Stage 1 re-entry burn OK

SECO

First Stage landing sequence started.

First stage has landed successfully!

Dragon has reached orbit successfully.

LANDED? i thought it was taking off

Do you not know how a rocket works? 

For most rockets, the first stage boosters just burn out, but SpaceX designed it so it can be reused. 

The first (bottom) stage of the rocket saves enough of its fuel to fly itself back home and land by computer control.

Have you never seen this done?

Here they do two at once:

What do you do when you want to play chess but have a headache?

I need advice

LMAO #88

😂

Endeavor has successfully docked with the Space Station.

Instead of paying @$85 million to the Russians for transport, now the money goes to Elon Musk.  And why are we sending folks into orbit?  Are we getting ready to mine the asteroids??  Now that's really cost effective too.  The flush of patriotism is worth the cost, apparently.  So, let's go for it!  

Exactly the same arguments that were used against crossing the Atlantic and colonizing America.

Good job.

Ah, yes, the economic rational is apparently "Space Tourism," which matches up well with our current pandemic?

"The prospect of space tourism took one giant leap forward over the weekend when SpaceX became the first private company to launch humans into orbit. Elon Musk’s space venture transported two Nasa astronauts from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station, where they docked yesterday. Nasa hopes to start sending paying passengers into space this summer. (Financial Times, June 1, 2020).

And Blueemu needs to get his head out of the sand?  Perhaps he likes it there?