International Space Station 21st anniversary

[Whiskey 7]

On May 29 1999 - Space shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station just one of 34 missions flown during construction of the ISS.

November 2, 2000 saw the first crew reside onboard the station staying several months and they were Astronaut Bill Shepherd, Cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev.

[Transient]

Now it looks like they may be opening the place up for tourism. Not sure how I feel about that, but if it pays the bills to keep the thing up there, I'm game.

[Don Carlos]

Lets see how the Space X launch goes today, shall we?

[YourGrandpa]

I wonder how much that little trip would cost. :shrug:

[seremtan]

after the explosion on Friday this had better be a successful flight

2020 has been enough of a shitshow already

[Eraser]

Well, as they say at SpaceX: Fail fast.
The explosion is unfortunate, but not critical.
The next (SN5) prototype is almost ready.

[seremtan]

looks like we're green across the board boys :dts:

13 minutes to orbit; 19 hours to the ISS

[seremtan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZsnKGV8TE

[xer0s]

They did it!

[Eraser]

Pretty impressive. History in the making right there

[Don Carlos]

Nicely done...the way the rocket just fucks off impresses me mind

[Whiskey 7]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZsnKGV8TE

Awesome

[xer0s]

Nicely done...the way the rocket just fucks off impresses me mind

The coolest thing is is probably the first stage rocket of Falcon 9 successfully landing on the drone ship out in the ocean...

[Transient]

Nicely done...the way the rocket just fucks off impresses me mind

Yeah, and seeing those boosters land back on Earth is still a surreal sight. It's like watching something out of a sci-fi movie. We're living in the future, man!