Space X, Monty Madness, Perfect Saturday

[capnrmorgan]

Is anyone getting up to watch the Space X launch @4:55am Saturday May 19th? I happen to catch this interview (http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/05/18/2012/on-eve-of-launch-spacex-head-talks-about-mission.html) with Elon Musk on NPR Science Friday! On NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html) @3:30am. I plan on getting my family up to watch this, get some breakfast and go to Monty Madness! (http://www.montymadness.com/event-info/) This will be a perfect Saturday!!! Fathers Day early!!!

[lynca]

i'm looking forward to this, I will probably just catch the recorded event .

and hopefully the news media forgets about facebook IPO and tells people about this amazing event in Private space history.

[DonRotolo]

It's going to be a great day indeed.
Except for being indoors at Monty when we're having such great weather...

[Ian Curtis]

My favorite part about this is that SpaceX and NASA have gotten way more educational oomph out of this than the Shuttle launches had in a long time. Sure CNN would cover a shuttle launch right as it was happening, and it was always on CSPAN, but people never really looked forward to it.

This Falcon 9 launch and the last one have managed to plaster themselves all over the news. Which is really really cool. I do feel a little for the SpaceX team though, this is a test flight and they have the eyes of a nation on their back.

[capnrmorgan]

Up again @ 4am to watch a successful launch of Space X!!! Will be watching for updates to this historic flight... Good Luck Elon Musk and Dragon control.