(What? Sorry, this nice cigar made me do it)
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• Cultural ref
• Picked up by Pookie’s Toons
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Possible Threefer)
RocketLab’s Electron from Wallops Is, VA
Interesting points: stage separation, fairing halves falling away, battery hot-swap/eject
Falcon9 Starlink from Vandenberg
Bull’s eye from me ol’ stompin’ ground, SLC-4
Falcon9 SES from the Cape
Ten-ring landing with a nice view of the big pieces after stage & fairing separations @~T+4m10s
St Patricks Day double-header !
Pi Day + 1
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• Story (for you whippersnappers, philistines, and eremites)
• Title cultural ref
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 CRS, cargo resupply to ISS)
Routine night launch, landing on barge
Bonus:
Real robot flying on an alien planet populated entirely by robots
Y’Don’t Always Get Whatcha Pay For
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• Story
Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Saturday threefer twofer )
Dragon Crew-5 undock from ISS (splashdown ~9pm EST, will put the link here)
Terran maiden launch of 3-D printed rocket, 4pm EST (scrubbed for the day)
Electron launch from NZ, 6pm EST (scrubbed for upper-air winds)
Wellp…
That threefer fell apart.
Ah well, try, try again.
______Stuff That’s Hard to Do (Falcon9 OneWeb)
Routine
Return to Launch Site (RTLS) Stg-1 landing and pretty Earth views, so great video
Things to watch for:
• After Stg-1&2 separate, Stg-1 flips and ignites to return to the Cape
• Fairing half being left behind illustrates Stg-2 acceleration
• Landing-burn startup transient (green flame of starting chemicals, TEA-TEB + LOx) @T+7:23
• Satellite deployment vid @T+1:29:45 to 1:35:30
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• Cultural ref
Updating the 2021 Version
Veeshir comment
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• Previously
• Picked up by Pookie’s Toons
G-Men, Lumberjacks, and Judeans
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• Historical ref (Hoover)
• Cultural ref-1 (Monty Python, Lumberjack sketch)
• Cultural ref-2 (Monty Python’s Life of Brian, I-want-to-be-a-woman scene)
• Reminder: Refs added for young whippersnappers who “ain’t got no culture” yet