(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.