SpaceX Heavy Falcon launch tonight 10:30CDT

[WrapItDog]

https://www.spacex.com/webcast webcast live 20 minutes prior to lift off.

The Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled for its first nighttime launch tonight, and the STP-2 mission is its most challenging yet.

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SpaceX will attempt to land the side boosters on ground landing zones, and the center core on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. This will be the first time the side boosters have been reused in a Falcon Heavy launch -- so the stakes are relatively high.

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[tatedog]

My 401k is pulling hard for that rocket.

 

[RocketDawg]

Getting a Soyuz return from the Space Station coming up soon too (in the next few minutes).

Hard to believe that Dish still carries the NASA Channel only in SD.

 

[kb549]

Rescheduled for 1:30 AM Central

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Rescheduled for 1:30 AM Central

Let me know how it goes.

 

[RocketDawg]

It just landed and appeared to go OK.

 

[kb549]

Nah, fam. I’m operating on only about 2 hours sleep from last night. I’m not staying up until 1:30 even if there is a confirmed alien invasion happening.

 

[blacklistedbully]

Personally, I'd much prefer to witness the return of SpaceX rockets. For launch, I wish I could have been there for a Saturn V launch, just for the raw power & prodigious size of this successful rocket.