OT: We have liftoff

[Old Guy]

Probably only of interest to the seriously geeky here but American history was made today.


SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches - CNN.com

[Cal Weldon]

C'mon OG, you don't have to be geeky to think that is cool. We've been hearing about it for years and today it finally came to be. Good on them.

[edharbur]

Very cool. Kind of sad, though, to see the NASA, which in it's heyday typified everything that made America great, can't keep up with private industry anymore.

[Audio_by_Goodwill]

Very cool. Kind of sad, though, to see the NASA, which in it's heyday typified everything that made America great, can't keep up with private industry anymore.

The article said that they were wanting to hand over that aspect of space flight. Could be just PR for lack of funds, or current policy, Though. What bothered me is the part about renting space on the Russian rockets to get to the space station.

[Altec Best]

I like all things that have to do with space exploration.Astronomy magazine,and I've wanted to purchase a nice 11" telescope for a couple years now, one of those goto scopes hooked up to my laptop.Geeky no it is just a question of asking What's out There.:2thumbsup:

[valhallax]

i subscribe to astronomy magazine as well..have since i was a kid