SpaceX Falcon 9 1.1 Production Line

15 responses to “SpaceX Falcon 9 1.1 Production Line”

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   jurvetson

   Mar 26, 2013 at 2:22 am

   Dragon at station currently (I edited a NASA photo):
   
   NASA TV will broadcast the return of Dragon, starting three hours before separation.

   Waiting at mission control at SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne, CA….
   

   which I brought the team to see
   

   • Launch Photos

   • Elon at TED

   • Recent SpaceX video medley

   • Hoverslam Ring of Fire video

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   scleroplex

   Mar 26, 2013 at 3:14 am

   best wishes + congratulations!!

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   jurvetson

   Mar 26, 2013 at 3:37 pm

   And off she goes…

   "It looks beautiful from here," station flight engineer Thomas Marshburn radioed to Mission Control in Houston as the capsule flew away. "Sad to see the Dragon go. Performed her job beautifully, heading back to her lair. Wish her all the best for the splashdown today."

   
   

   She should splash down near Baja in one hour.

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   jurvetson

   Mar 26, 2013 at 5:48 pm

   and there she goes! This just in from the SpaceX recovery boat:

   

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   scleroplex

   Mar 26, 2013 at 7:32 pm

   baja and splashing down naturally takes me back to Diamonds are Forever 🙂

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   js.brain

   Mar 27, 2013 at 2:58 am

   Looking very much forward to the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the huge 1.3 tons of scientific payloads back to Earth… Exciting!

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   seatonsnet

   Mar 27, 2013 at 9:37 am

   Having trouble connecting to your latest photo. Or did you delete it?

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   heet_myser

   Mar 27, 2013 at 2:41 pm

   Pretty great stuff. Steve, I wonder, what is your company’s mission statement, and how closely does it align with any personal dreams, or goals, you have? Renewable energy, space exploration, genetics…so much of what you seem to do is driving innovation that may not even realize widespread adoption during your kids’ lifetime, let alone yours. This thought came to me when I was re-watching The Right Stuff (for, I think, the 384th time) the other day and marveled — anew — at how inspirational those times must have been for anyone paying any attention at all to "the space race."

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   seatonsnet

   Mar 27, 2013 at 5:04 pm

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/heet_myser] "Inspirational"?… Yes and no. I was 13 years old and close to starting high school when the USSR put Sputnik in orbit. My interests were art and world history and in the hysteria following Sputnik’s launch everything that I cared about was considered of little value… less than little value… simply a waste of time, lost in the propaganda circus of the two super powers. I clearly remember the McCarthy hearings, I had a cousin who was a pilot navigator in SAC and there were Nike missiles lining the Chicago lake front. If you didn’t live it, it would be difficult to imagine, how little the "regime" cared for the things I care about.

   As to innovation, much of what we see today — the prime example being the Internet — is the commercialization, the turning into commodities of things developed in that "tale told by an idiot" which was the Cold War. So, as you can see I’m a bit ambivalent about the whole thing. I love Internet, it has changed my life for the better in a hundred ways, but at the same time I am worried by the kids who have abandoned books to fiddle all day with their smart phones. Will they be able make a better world?

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    heet_myser

    Mar 27, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/48331433@N05] "My interests were art and world history and in the hysteria following Sputnik’s launch everything that I cared about was considered of little value… less than little value… simply a waste of time, lost in the propaganda circus of the two super powers."

    To be fair, art and world history haven’t been much valued, relatively speaking, since, what, the 17th Century?

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    seatonsnet

    Mar 27, 2013 at 8:00 pm

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/heet_myser] A Picasso just sold for $155,000,000 and only a student of world history possesses the perspective to have any hope of understanding the period we live in now, but yeah, you probably have a point.

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    jurvetson

    Mar 27, 2013 at 11:16 pm

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/heet_myser] — Mission statement? We have a few. =) I found this on our home page:

    "Disruptive Innovations
    The greatest rewards are reserved for those with the courage to pursue big, disruptive ideas. Whether re-inventing the car, reaching for the stars, or building quantum computers, we dream big alongside our fearless entrepreneurs. Share your big ideas with us."

    And we would not agree on the timeframe… on renewable energy, consider our investments in SolarCity, Tesla, Silverspring and Enernoc, all of which have gone public already. And as for Space, we are not pursuing like the government does. SpaceX has over $4B of revenue booked already and has been profitable for a few years now…

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    seatonsnet

    Mar 28, 2013 at 6:46 am

    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson] I’m taking this Coursera course on disruptive technologies: class.coursera.org/sdt-001/class/index whaddaya think?

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    rocketmavericks

    Mar 28, 2013 at 11:07 pm

    Hey Steve – Not sure if you saw this, but I met this team last summer and am proud to see that the first Estonian Space Craft launched into space will be done by a bunch of student Mavericks.

    http://www.estcube.eu/en/home

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    websumm.it

    Mar 31, 2013 at 3:36 pm

    it should be finally able to carry 7 mt of payload to the ISS of which 2 mt of cargo

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