Falcon 9 Interstage Coupler

6 responses to “Falcon 9 Interstage Coupler”

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   jurvetson

   Nov 2, 2008 at 6:03 pm

   From Demo Flight 2 of Falcon 1:

   

   On Demo Flight 3, the upper stage ignited inside of the interstage coupler… that destroyed the fragile upper stage bell (which is as thin as a Coke can).

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   Apollo 11

   Nov 3, 2008 at 12:12 am

   The engineer is a universal standard unit of measure in a photo. 🙂

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   Todd Huffman

   Nov 3, 2008 at 2:54 am

   Ah, I remember that part of the flight!

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   born1945

   Nov 24, 2008 at 11:18 pm

   Per the BBC new, there was a successful test of the Falcon 9 rocket engines today.

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   jurvetson

   Nov 25, 2008 at 1:05 am

   beauty – all 9 motors alight…. and for the local perspective, we turn to the Waco Tribune blog:

   "well shucks. I live over her in Teague on the Due hiway and my barn rattled so hard it knocked a couple bales of hay down from the top loft and scared my cows and they went hitailing thru the fence and out on the due hiway and pulled two big old pecan trees down and blocled the darn hiway. I don’t reckon it’s anyone’s fault though."

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   born1945

   Nov 25, 2008 at 5:27 am

   lol 🙂

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