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June 01, 2012

Dragon Space Capsule Safely Splashes Down
— Ace

World's first private space vehicle, now returned to earth.

Posted by: Ace at 01:33 PM | Comments (53)
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1 Raise your glasses of Tang for a toast...

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 01, 2012 01:35 PM (aEwHy)

2 hmmm

Posted by: phoenixgirl clinging to my bible, gun and coca cola at June 01, 2012 01:36 PM (Ho2rs)

3 and apparently it caused some sort of time warp.

Posted by: irright at June 01, 2012 01:36 PM (RzLbD)

4 IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!!

Oh, wait.

Posted by: Cicero at June 01, 2012 01:36 PM (QKKT0)

5 Let's do the time warp again.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 01, 2012 01:36 PM (aEwHy)

6 Video is broken. No ass shaking.

Posted by: fluffy at June 01, 2012 01:37 PM (4pSIn)

7
....'scuse me sir.

Do you have a permit for that???

Posted by: Barky Obama's OSHA at June 01, 2012 01:37 PM (C8hzL)

8 It's all fun and games until a face-hugger climbs out.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 01, 2012 01:37 PM (UOM48)

9 Did it splash down in the Forbidden Zone?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 01, 2012 01:38 PM (aEwHy)

10 Wouldn't that be great if Planet of the Apes monkeys jumped out?

Posted by: Cicero at June 01, 2012 01:38 PM (QKKT0)

11 Let's all raise a glass to the Muslim engineers and scientists behind this.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 01, 2012 01:39 PM (UOM48)

12 The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago.

Posted by: Dr Zaius at June 01, 2012 01:40 PM (C8hzL)

13 OT, but isn't it about time for a Friday afternoon White House document dump?

Posted by: Cicero at June 01, 2012 01:40 PM (QKKT0)

14 Nice

Posted by: Vic at June 01, 2012 01:40 PM (YdQQY)

15 Put it on Bush's tab!

US Debt Soars By $54 Billion Overnight, Closes May At Record $15,770,685,085,364.10

http://tinyurl.com/bt8sglt

Posted by: King Barry the Frugal at June 01, 2012 01:40 PM (Y+DPZ)

16 So you never actually see the so called "splash down". I am not saying its a hoax, just asking questions....

Posted by: AndrewsDad at June 01, 2012 01:41 PM (C2//T)

17 Private, except for the fact it was paid for by a half a billion in federal taxpayer dollars. Small detail.

Posted by: Ben at June 01, 2012 01:42 PM (KcCPI)

18 Capricorn 2: IF I Did It

Posted by: Dr. Varno at June 01, 2012 01:42 PM (aEwHy)

19
If this is the best they've got around here, in six months we'll be running this planet.

Posted by: Taylor at June 01, 2012 01:42 PM (C8hzL)

20 could have sworn yesterday i saw michael kors on the list of designers for obama.....he's not on there today....odd....

Posted by: phoenixgirl clinging to my bible, gun and coca cola at June 01, 2012 01:43 PM (Ho2rs)

21 sorry that was off topic

Posted by: phoenixgirl clinging to my bible, gun and coca cola at June 01, 2012 01:43 PM (Ho2rs)

22 wow what a relief

Posted by: soothsayer at June 01, 2012 01:43 PM (Ztdpw)

23 My eyeballs are still jiggling up and down in my head from the Walmart video in the last thread. And I barely made it through ten seconds.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 01, 2012 01:44 PM (UOM48)

24
Wouldn't that be great if Planet of the Apes monkeys jumped out?

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Would be funnier if the rescue team all wore gorilla suits to fetch the astronauts.

Posted by: fixerupper at June 01, 2012 01:44 PM (C8hzL)

25 I bet those astronauts are getting laid tonight.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 01, 2012 01:45 PM (aEwHy)

26 I called my husband and asked when the hell he's coming home so we can go out. His IT guys are sitting around discussing the Hitchhiker series with him, which they're just now getting around to reading.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 01, 2012 01:46 PM (UOM48)

27 b..but only government can do stuff like that

Posted by: Katrina evacuee at June 01, 2012 01:47 PM (Qr9Rc)

28 I wonder if it was empty. We haven't heard anything from Hillary the last few days.

Posted by: Soona at June 01, 2012 01:47 PM (eG+Qx)

29 Would be funnier if the rescue team all wore gorilla suits to fetch the astronauts.

It would be funnier if the rescue team had Alien bodies protruding from their abdomens.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 01, 2012 01:47 PM (UOM48)

30 As marvelous a scientific and commercial achievement this is, I still have in the back of my mind the loans to Tesla and Space X's riding to the rescue the moment we dismantled our own shuttle program.

I know the end of the shuttle program originated with Bush, years ago, but the timing sure is coincidental.

Then again, if our tax dollars are going to be spent anywhere, this is certainly more worthwhile than "green" energy.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 01, 2012 01:48 PM (piMMO)

31 Jane D'oh, my son is reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy right now. He had me read the "42" section out loud to him last night. (that was the hitchhiker series you meant, right?)

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at June 01, 2012 01:49 PM (RZ8pf)

32 >>>which they're just now getting around to reading.

And they admitted that? Confiscate their geek cards immediately.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at June 01, 2012 01:49 PM (0q2P7)

33 another new thread above?!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 01, 2012 01:50 PM (piMMO)

34 Then again, if our tax dollars are going to be spent anywhere, this is certainly more worthwhile than "green" energy.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 01, 2012 05:48 PM (piMMO)

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The SpaceX project is trying to make enough money so they can move their operation to Costa Rica.

Posted by: Soona at June 01, 2012 01:52 PM (eG+Qx)

35 An excellent accomplishment, but it's the first private orbital vehicle, not the first private space vehicle. Burt Rutan and Paul Allen launched SpaceShipOne 8 years ago, incidentally winning the US$10 million Ansari X Prize. They are currently testing their second-generation spaceplane, naturally called SpaceShipTwo.

Posted by: Major Tom at June 01, 2012 01:54 PM (P+jgw)

36 The SpaceX project is trying to make enough money so they can move their operation to Costa Rica.

****

I hear Singapore is nice.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at June 01, 2012 01:56 PM (piMMO)

37 Capricorn 2: IF I Did It ------------------------------ Ok, damn, that was funny.

Posted by: Asst. To The Asst. Manager at June 01, 2012 01:59 PM (AzwZn)

38 33 >>>which they're just now getting around to reading.

And they admitted that? Confiscate their geek cards immediately.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Troll Hunter! at June 01, 2012 05:49 PM (0q2P7

Srsly. Actually, they're young and a great bunch of guys. My husband insisted they read Hitchhiker. Now they're having book discussions after work!

Our son discovered the series on one of our book shelves when he was a soph. in high school. He LOVED them. We loaned the collection to a friend's son a few years ago and never got them back.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 01, 2012 01:59 PM (UOM48)

39 Tang and Space Food Sticks for all.

Posted by: Hanoverfist at June 01, 2012 02:01 PM (loxZc)

40 10 Wouldn't that be great if Planet of the Apes monkeys jumped out?

I bet that they are free market, capitalist Apes - that's why they end up taking over!

Posted by: Evan at June 01, 2012 02:03 PM (esBDg)

41
Maybe we can get off this ball, settle a new world, and call it Freehold.

Posted by: Lord Monochromicorn at June 01, 2012 02:08 PM (sw9Gv)

42 It's cool to see the private sector doing this, but I commented yesterday that Elon Musk (co founder of SpaceX) gets a ton of crony bucks from the SCoaMF for Greeen bullshit.

http://scoamf.us/u9

Posted by: Toaster at June 01, 2012 02:08 PM (sJKFk)

43 Went from the STS back to a capsule form. This hipster retro stuff has to stop

Posted by: Hanoverfist at June 01, 2012 02:13 PM (loxZc)

44 The cost to the taxpayer of a Falcon9/Dragon combo is much, much less than the cost of a Soyuz flight. When the Falcon Heavy (which has already been shopped and contracted to another private company for a flight (Intelsat)) gets going, the world's most powerful launcher will be in private hands. It dwarfs all but the Saturn V and we can't make that anymore. A Falcon Heavy can throw 16,000kg in trans-lunar orbit. The Dragon, fully kited out with consumables, only masses around 9200 kg. Yeah, it's a good deal for us - as private citizens and as taxpayers footing the bill for the resupply flights to the International Bullshit Station.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at June 01, 2012 02:15 PM (YSyyZ)

45 Moon bases. Private space thingys. Sharks with lasers. 300 U.N. observers who can't find a gunfight. TGIF! Lucky for me that I am jaded, a little, or my gofuckyerself meter would be bouncing on the peg.

Posted by: And Irresolute at June 01, 2012 02:17 PM (RC3M9)

46 Plus, the Falcon9 and Heavy class boosters are planned to be recoverable. You read that right - the final version is intended to soft-land and for the upper stage - to re-enter and soft-land. Powered soft-landing. Costs then go down further. Unlike the STS, the Falcon series is truly intended to be re-used - all of it. Including the booster. The first flights are going to be disposable - like the Delta heavy and such. The second generation (planned 2016 or so) will be built to land on their tails after separation. Refurb and relaunch.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at June 01, 2012 02:18 PM (YSyyZ)

47 Oh, and while I am still hammered, here is an update on Why Incompetents Think They're Awesome ... from ArsTechnica, short and .. and... http://tinyurl.com/c9e3erv

Posted by: And Irresolute at June 01, 2012 02:21 PM (RC3M9)

48 Nice main parachute openings. I wonder who made them?

Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at June 01, 2012 02:50 PM (cwPzQ)

49 Back when Bush was president, it always pissed me off how "reality based" liberals could never name even ONE thing that Bush did right. It was a clear sign to me that they were absolutely rabid anti-Bush and unhinged. That being said: I think the way that NASA (under Obama) handed off manned space logistics to private companies like SpaceX was something the Obama administration did right. Ok, back to hating the SCOAMF...

Posted by: Stirner at June 01, 2012 03:34 PM (nTjSs)

50 Old school baby. Just like Glenn did it. Well, without the whole sinking thing, that is.

H8RZ gonna H8

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at June 01, 2012 04:10 PM (PI8zr)

51 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: Steevy at June 01, 2012 04:23 PM (Ts9tU)

52 #51

Actually, it was Gus Grissom's capsule that sank (Glenn's Friendship 7 is in the Smithsonian), but I agree with the sentiment.

Posted by: Ken at June 01, 2012 05:24 PM (fFh95)

53 I love this. With NASA being cut for now, I find it great that private industry did this. It's a great day for private enterprise, and for America.

Posted by: Dave at June 01, 2012 05:25 PM (93Ihe)

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