pic: SpaceX 3:44 AM History

[Andrew Remmers]

http://i.imgur.com/MTNgx.jpg

picture is huge, but this one pretty cool to guys.

- Andrew

[Kevin Watson]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

Winner of coolest picture I've seen yet is this one, where EPCOT's Mission Space building makes an X with the path of the rocket.

Cool photo. Do you know who took it?

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

Want to witness for yourself history and the making? Go to www.heavensabove.com and track when the dragon capsule goes over your house. You can see it with the naked eye. In a couple days, you'll see both the space station and dragon go by together.

After the launch, a portion of the celebration moved to the SpaceX headquarters roof, where Dragon was visible three hours after launch. It was pretty epic.

I'm not sure if it'll be webcast and/or on NASA TV, but early tomorrow morning we start the C2 demo phase of the mission, where we demonstrate that we can navigate and move around ISS successfully. Once this is done and we get the okay from NASA, we'll berth with ISS the next day, which I believe will be shown on NASA TV.

-Kevin

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by Kevin Watson

Cool photo. Do you know who took it?


-Kevin

I found it on Tampa Bay Channel 9 News website, they give credit to
Matt Stroshane / Disney Parks Blog

Keep us posted Kevin, I'm rooting for you all like you're my sports team.

[Kevin Watson]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

I found it on Tampa Bay Channel 9 News website, they give credit to
Matt Stroshane / Disney Parks Blog

Keep us posted Kevin, I'm rooting for you all like you're my sports team.

I sent the photo to Elon & Gwynne (our CEO & President) and a bunch of other folks. People are digging the double SpaceX "swoosh".

Dragon is doing great and we're preparing for operations with ISS over the next couple of days.

-Kevin

[CarterM]

Random thought: Any FIRST alumni involved with this?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by CarterM

Random thought: Any FIRST alumni involved with this?

Kevin Meissner, alumni of 11, is currently a structures engineer for SpaceX. He's the only team alum I know of working there. I trust there's plenty of people from FIRST involved though, including Kevin Watson ^

[rsisk]

Aisha Ayoub Malik who has judged in LA and at CMP works at SpaceX as does Andrew Keisic from 294

[Kevin Watson]

Originally Posted by CarterM

Random thought: Any FIRST alumni involved with this?

Yes, there are quite a few FRC alumni here.

-Kevin

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Kevin Watson

Yes, there are quite a few FRC alumni here.

-Kevin

Do you care to mention who and their teams?

[PAR_WIG1350]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

www.heavensabove.com

Why School? Why Finals? at 3:25-ish (three hours from now) it is passing over Narraganset, RI with a magnitude of .9. I've decided not to check to see if it will be visible from Providence since I need to sleep before exams start tomorrow. If the launch had happened a month later, I could be setting up the telescope right now.

[Akash Rastogi]

The ISS has captured the Dragon module. This is very very cool. Congrats SpaceX/humanity.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

[Barry Bonzack]

Dragon is now berthed to the space station! I believe they are openning the hatch tomorrow to receive the supplies

[akeisic]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Aisha Ayoub Malik who has judged in LA and at CMP works at SpaceX as does Andrew Keisic from 294

In addition to mentoring 294, I'm also a 217 alumn.

Robert Leibersbach from TorrBot (1197) and Ben Seipser from El Segundo Robotics (1759) also work at SpaceX.

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by akeisic

In addition to mentoring 294, I'm also a 217 alumn.

Robert Leibersbach from TorrBot (1197) and Ben Seipser from El Segundo Robotics (1759) also work at SpaceX.

Jadon Smith, team 45 alumni and 1998 driver, is the "Lead Propulsion Systems Analyst" at SpaceX.

Andy B.

[Barry Bonzack]

Thought everyone would enjoy this. some of the Apollo astronauts signed a congratutory poster to SpaceX.



This is really cool, as some of the astronauts have criticized government spending on commercial space. Elon Musk stated in an interview that he considers these critics some of his greatest heroes, and sources of inspiration.