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03/14/2025 SpaceX crewed launch VIDEO STREAM HERE: NASA astronauts coming back home tonight.

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    KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. BREVARD COUNTY FL 03/12/2025

    Final preparations are underway right now at the launchpad at Cape Canaveral as a SpaceX Falcon 9 single unit heavy hauler is set to lift off at 7:48 PM EST to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who had been stranded aboard the ISS for 8 months due to mechanical issues in their Boeing Starliner shuttle boat, are scheduled to return home tonight aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule, which is already docked and ready for departure at the station and awaiting fueling by the arriving crew tonight.

    Tonight's Crew-10 launch will be piloted and commanded by 4 SpaceX astronauts. Veteran USAF combat pilots Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Russian cosmonaut Krill Peskov.

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    UPDATE: LIFTOFF 03/14/2025 MISSION SUCCESSFUL. FULL VIDEO IN POST 30 OF THIS THREAD.
     
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    It will not be at all surprising if some of the democrats at Space X and NASA have sabotaged this flight. Honestly, the evil left is all about killing people. Lashing out at the guy doing the most good work in this country is what they are living for these days. Destroying billions of dollars in equipment and killing astronauts is what I'd expect from a democrat these days. Hell, they spent a week cursing a kid with cancer because he wants to be a cop.

    I'm hoping for the best, but these people have already tried to murder the president twice and are shooting at people who drive Tesla products, burning cars, shooting at car dealers, screaming at people in the street and all sorts of nastiness. Why? Because someone told them a dick on a chick makes her a man.

    If all goes well, the people Biden marooned in space will come home safely.
     
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    _Windrider_ said:
    Why the fuck is a Russian on board?
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    Probably part of the pact dating back to the Krushchev era that the USA and USSR/Russian Federation will jointly work together on space exploration and frontline sci-tech research and share information in the work of the research. One aspect of the pact has US and Russian astronauts also joint staffing certain missions. Not just space, but also in deep sea and Antarctic ventures as well. It was one of the key things that kept the Cold War from going hot even during really hairtrigger moments. From the 1970s to late 90s, there had been tense moments aboard joint staff missions high up in space when astronauts and cosmonauts had to continue living and working together even when it looked like the two superpowers were at a brink of a war involving a global ICBM nuke exchange. Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey II gave one of the best literary descriptions of that tension and the individual emotions of both the Americans and Russians preparing for the worst.
     
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    Blue Sky Country said:
    Probably part of the pact dating back to the Krushchev era that the USA and USSR/Russian Federation will jointly work together on space exploration and frontline sci-tech research and share information in the work of the research. One aspect of the pact has US and Russian astronauts also joint staffing certain missions. Not just space, but also in deep sea and Antarctic ventures as well. It was one of the key things that kept the Cold War from going hot even during really hairtrigger moments. From the 1970s to late 90s, there had been tense moments aboard joint staff missions high up in space when astronauts and cosmonauts had to continue living and working together even when it looked like the two superpowers were at a brink of a war involving a global ICBM nuke exchange. Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey II gave one of the best literary descriptions of that tension and the individual emotions of both the Americans and Russians preparing for the worst.
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    Excellent summary.
     
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    Blue Sky Country said:
    Probably part of the pact dating back to the Krushchev era that the USA and USSR/Russian Federation will jointly work together on space exploration and frontline sci-tech research and share information in the work of the research. One aspect of the pact has US and Russian astronauts also joint staffing certain missions. Not just space, but also in deep sea and Antarctic ventures as well. It was one of the key things that kept the Cold War from going hot even during really hairtrigger moments. From the 1970s to late 90s, there had been tense moments aboard joint staff missions high up in space when astronauts and cosmonauts had to continue living and working together even when it looked like the two superpowers were at a brink of a war involving a global ICBM nuke exchange. Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey II gave one of the best literary descriptions of that tension and the individual emotions of both the Americans and Russians preparing for the worst.
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    Station is a joint operation. The Russians have been involved since Al Gore brought them on in 93 Ish. They were to supply technology escape capsules and supply missions. As well as cosmonauts.

    But blue sky country is also dead on in that joint space exploration all the way back to Apollo Soyuz has been extremely valuable as part of our diplomacy. One place that we cooperate really well is space.

    Sirhr
     
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    Looks like it has been scrubbed in the time being. Waiting for them to come back online with an analysis. Crewed missions have to be far extra careful. If the diagnostics computers find even the slightest anomaly in the vehicle's operation systems, they will call it off until it is 100% green lights throughout.
     
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    Blue Sky Country said:
    Probably part of the pact dating back to the Krushchev era that the USA and USSR/Russian Federation will jointly work together on space exploration and frontline sci-tech research and share information in the work of the research. One aspect of the pact has US and Russian astronauts also joint staffing certain missions. Not just space, but also in deep sea and Antarctic ventures as well. It was one of the key things that kept the Cold War from going hot even during really hairtrigger moments. From the 1970s to late 90s, there had been tense moments aboard joint staff missions high up in space when astronauts and cosmonauts had to continue living and working together even when it looked like the two superpowers were at a brink of a war involving a global ICBM nuke exchange. Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey II gave one of the best literary descriptions of that tension and the individual emotions of both the Americans and Russians preparing for the worst.
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    That’s all fine and dandy, but I think pretty much any agreements are out the door right now but just for fun we should’ve put a Ukrainian on there
     
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    _Windrider_ said:
    Well seeing as most SpaceX “astronauts “ are civilians all I gotta do is train them up
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    Okay…

    Care to comment on this crew?

    Tonight's Crew-10 launch will be piloted and commanded by 4 SpaceX astronauts. Veteran USAF combat pilots Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Russian cosmonaut Krill Peskov.
     
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    _Windrider_ said:
    Why the fuck is a Russian on board?
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    Its an International space station and Russians still provide rides and cargo flights every couple of months . Ferried US astronaut in September.

    ISS is made up of 16 pressurized modules: six Russian modules, eight US modules , one Japanese module and one European module .
    At least one Soyuz spacecraft is always docked as a 'lifeboat' and is replaced every six months by a new Soyuz as part of crew rotation ,Russian modules provide near all life support and all control and propulsion to ISS and 100% of the self rescue capabilty if shit hits the fan.


    That’s all fine and dandy, but I think pretty much any agreements are out the door right now but just for fun we should’ve put a Ukrainian on there
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    ISS is ultimately about all partners contributing something and for most of ISS existance It was110% depended on Russian transports even now as you see by near 1year unplanned stay of Boeing contractors. Ukrainian up there would be just another ''money for nothing and ride for free'' , like everything Ukraine in past 3years. At least UAE and Saudis pay shit load of money to get some folk on ISS
     
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    For all the naysayers, say your nays and bury your heads in the sand. Without private enterprise and potential profits, space exploration is a wet dream. NASA was treading water after the shuttles were finally retired.
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    ^^^ This times 10,000,000,000!!!

    Sirhr
     
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    This is the most important mission since either Apollo 13 (when I was about 9...) or the first launch of the Shuttle... when I was 13 or so... and a freshman in HS.

    Damn, this is some serious shit... Either Elon and his team is the greatest hero ever... or is going to have a spaceflght failure that while, technically minor, will be historically off-the-charts.

    Holy hell.... on the edge of my seat..

    Sirhr
     
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    _Windrider_ said:
    Why the fuck is a Russian on board?
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    Because the ISS is still ran with coordination and cooperation with Russia via NASA and Roscosmos channels. Human Space Flight is one of the few things that mostly escapes geopolitical differences between the US, Russia, and even China in most cases. Additionally, this cosmonauts mission onboard this dragon capsule was most likely planned prior to the current conflicts.
     
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    jthor said:
    Because the ISS is still ran with coordination and cooperation with Russia via NASA and Roscosmos channels. Human Space Flight is one of the few things that mostly escapes geopolitical differences between the US, Russia, and even China in most cases. Additionally, this cosmonauts mission onboard this dragon capsule was most likely planned prior to the current conflicts.
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    thank you for reiterating what 8 others have already said. I understand all that and i disagree its not free from politics. But whatever. nothing i can do but stfu and move on. wont matter in 5 years anyway.
     
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    The great thing about SpaceX is the live feed when launching and landing. It keeps interest alive. I don't know of any launch feed on X that did not have less than 90k watchers regardless of time of launch.

    Even though Falcon 9 launches and landings are now almost routine, I still like to watch it evertime they launch.
     
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    JerkyFreak said:
    The great thing about SpaceX is the live feed when launching and landing. It keeps interest alive. I don't know of any launch feed on X that did not have less than 90k watchers regardless of time of launch.

    Even though Falcon 9 launches and landings are now almost routine, I still like to watch it evertime they launch.
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    i watch em from the back yard. seen a few from the air too. always awesome.
     
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    _Windrider_ said:
    thank you for reiterating what 8 others have already said. I understand all that and i disagree its not free from politics. But whatever. nothing i can do but stfu and move on. wont matter in 5 years anyway.
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    Never said it was free of Geopolitics, but mostly free when working in Human Space Flight. Most specifically with safety and data sharing conjunctions with the ISS between us and Russias and even notifying the Chinese of conjunctions with their Tiangong.
     
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    Have always wanted to see a launch live. Was in Daytona a couple of years ago for the 24hr and they had a launch that weekend. Scrubbed all 3 days when I was down there.... To make up for it, I have been to 3 Starship launches and the first catch on Flight 5. I will never get tired of watching a Falcon 9 land, but to see booster catch was just about as crazy as watching the Solar Eclipse. Every ones minds were collectively blown when it happened.
     
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    Bacarrat said:
    Have always wanted to see a launch live. Was in Daytona a couple of years ago for the 24hr and they had a launch that weekend. Scrubbed all 3 days when I was down there.... To make up for it, I have been to 3 Starship launches and the first catch on Flight 5. I will never get tired of watching a Falcon 9 land, but to see booster catch was just about as crazy as watching the Solar Eclipse. Every ones minds were collectively blown when it happened.
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    honestly, probably one of the greatest feets of humankind. its mindblowing.
     
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    Bacarrat said:
    Have always wanted to see a launch live. Was in Daytona a couple of years ago for the 24hr and they had a launch that weekend. Scrubbed all 3 days when I was down there.... To make up for it, I have been to 3 Starship launches and the first catch on Flight 5. I will never get tired of watching a Falcon 9 land, but to see booster catch was just about as crazy as watching the Solar Eclipse. Every ones minds were collectively blown when it happened.
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    I would love to see a Starship launch and catch in person. Unfortunately I live in South Africa so funds and visa a bit difficult to acquire.
     
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