SpaceX Rocket Test Fired on This Week @NASA
NASA commercial partner, SpaceX, is a step closer on its planned journey to the International Space Station. After its rollout to Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was lifted into place for a static engine fire test simulating launch. The exercise ended with all nine engines firing at full power for two seconds. The successful test clears the way for Falcon 9’s upcoming demonstration flight to the ISS as part of NASA’s plan for private companies to take over cargo delivery to the orbiting complex. Also, Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin participated in traditional ceremonies at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia before departing for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to complete training for their launch to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft later this month and more!
why do NASA just send a shudel out there and let it have all these cameros on it and wait 1-5 years then send it back to earth with all those videos. OK i am not some regular kid i think like now other wood think if you do not beleave me then listen. You do not have to hurt you can just let the hurt out and we can not prodict what will hapen we have to send things out there we dont have to pay money you could just say do you what me to pay this when we could just do it and see what is out there.
Beleave in doing and if you wont do it i will. I will discover space time history and other UNIVERSES i now becase i can see the future i know what is going to happen. NASA will send a nother satolight up in space and you will not tell people about this do not KEEP IT A SECERT THE WORLD WILL GO IN KOS IF YOU DO NOT TELL the wrold show us and we will not be distoryed i will tell you about the UNIVERSE.
Thank you very much for the subtitles!! 🙂
To all intents and purposes they are the same as the 1960's rockets all be it with 21st century technology. There's nothing more NASA can do because going into space is too expensive to do more than this, even for the US government. Thats the reason why we haven't been back to the moon. No one can afford it.
Thats right. Although going back to the moon is unaffordable now. Otherwise they would have gone back years ago.
I feel the same way but it turns out that a winged vehicle can't withstand the heat and energy of re-entry from anything greater than low earth orbit.
It would be nice if they could keep both programs going but we'll just have to hope that the new launch vehicle rivals the Saturn V in size and power. It would make losing the shuttle easier to take if we could see something like that flying again.
Yes i agree. I think it all boils down to expense. I don't think even NASA can afford anything other than basic rockets these days, hence not going back to the moon for the last few decades.
I seriously hope we can start manned missions to mars in my lifetime. Privatizing the space industry is probably the smartest move NASA has made, even if they did get forced into it due to funding cuts… competition fuels innovation.
Compare these people to Elon Musk