Comments on: SpaceX Dragon launches successfully; thruster problem will delay ISS arrival

By: Bruce Kyu An

Bruce Kyu An — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:52:00 +0000

Some people are so quick to criticize on small oops. let them try it and show how perfect they are themselves. They should think and learn about how engineering marvels are continuous string of fine small details. Surely different than sitting on couch sipping beers and ridicule other people’s sleepless achievement. Hooray, Elon Musk…. I have a lot of respect for the young pioneer who struggles carry on not much left American technology.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:44:00 +0000

I liked the delicate interplay between your screen name and the transalation of “chorizo” to “sausage”.

It spoke much to my sentido del humor, if google serves, as it should.

By: Marius van Voorden

Marius van Voorden — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 13:36:00 +0000

So you’re saying, they forgot to solve the icing problem?

By: euansmith

euansmith — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:47:00 +0000

In the words of Sean Connery, “Schocking…”

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:33:00 +0000

Well it’s already 2230 here, and no anti-gravity yet. Maybe by 2050 in your time zone?

By: RobertR

RobertR — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:21:00 +0000

Probably ice from water vapor in the oxidizer line. I worked at Pratt & Whitney back in the day and they had an upper stage failure that they traced to water vapor. When you chill the engines down to liquid oxygen temperatures, the water vapor freezes and blocks the fuel or oxidizer lines. When P&W built the rockets they would dry them in an oven and then weld them up in a container to keep them dry, but even a pin-hole leak was enough to cause the failure if they were left long enough.

By: Jon Rodriguez

Jon Rodriguez — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:49:00 +0000

And yet, you felt the need to, Sausage.

By: hypnosifl

hypnosifl — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:46:00 +0000

It wasn’t really sarcasm, it was a sex joke. You clearly don’t watch enough Bond movies!

By: Fantome_NR

Fantome_NR — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:44:00 +0000

great minds snark alike.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:36:00 +0000

Damnit! I read the article and thought “Elon Musk…. oh yeah…” and rushed to make the first witty. A half hour late.

Hat-tip.

By: chorizo

chorizo — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:30:00 +0000

There’s never any need to point out that Tesla fanboys are humorless.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:19:00 +0000

I think that optimal conditions will be around 2050, when they get anti-gravity.

By: euansmith

euansmith — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:18:00 +0000

Go! Go! SpaceX Dragon!

By: kaplanfx

kaplanfx — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:18:00 +0000

Rather, it’s hard to tell sarcasm on the internet, I will er on the side of defending Musk, we need more people like him who take their fortunes and actually invest in risky difficult projects.

By: Fantome_NR

Fantome_NR — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:17:00 +0000

^^^ no sense of humor

By: kaplanfx

kaplanfx — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:15:00 +0000

On the contrary he was completely forthcoming about this, and has been open about other issues when they occur as well. His history makes me tend to trust him rather than some anti-electric oil shill NYT blogger.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:12:00 +0000

Reportedly they tried liftoff during suboptimal conditions.

By: Jake0748

Jake0748 — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:08:00 +0000

Yeah. Did they drive it around the space parking lot for too long?

By: Fantome_NR

Fantome_NR — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:02:00 +0000

watch out, Elon Musk might get upset if you call it a thruster problem.

By: peregrinus

peregrinus — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:01:00 +0000

Yay! Space exploration go! Boo! Thruster issue.

I am so utterly psyched by this!