SpaceX Falcon 9 launch

The Bushwhackers are still there!

 

Live coverage of reentry and splashdown:

SpaceX

 

Also, if you have Pluto on your streaming service, on NASA TV.

 

Room full of smart people, every one of which is wearing a mask.

 

Splashdown within a minute.

 

In the water, waiting for pickup. Looks like a great day for boating in the Gulf.

 

That was cool

 

Open the fuckin' hatch already!

 

Thank you.

 

Note to SpaceX: If you're going to splash down that close to the coast, you might want a security boat or the Coast Guard to keep the pleasure craft out of the way. Never dawned on me until I saw the Trump flag that Florida Boatowner Man and 50 of his friends would decide to join the party. All you need is something to go wrong, either on the spacecraft or on one of the fishing boats, and you've got a major problem on your hands.

The fact that Dragon was still covered with toxic vapors was a good enough reason to run those jokers out of the area.

 

How far out were they?

 

I couldn't tell but the sonic booms and the parachutes attracted a big crowd of onlookers. Bad thing about that: that spacecraft still has quite a bit of "kaboom" liquid on it, unlike Apollo, because it has its own thrusters. Nitrogen dioxide, NTO, etc.

I'm not a chemist, but those sound dangerous.