SpaceX flight to ISS aborted... for the moment.

[Black Aeronaut]

I was watching the webcast this morning for the launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with the Dragon orbiter.  There was one great climactic moment of anticipation.... and then ... *fizzle*.
The good news is that it was a safety cut-out.  The flight computer detected a parameter on of of the nine Merlin engines of the Falcon 9 that was out of bounds and terminated the launch sequence.  This means that whatever it was, it's fixable and they still have a viable launch vehicle.
The bad news... we gotta wait a bit longer for our first commercial space vehicle to dock with the ISS.  And I stayed up all night to see it.  :p

[Drenivian]

Gah, that stinks.  I hope they fix it soon.  Also.  Get to bed!
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In the epic rage of furious thunder
legends create their tales
when the twilight calls and the dark lord falls
our glory will prevail

[Florin]

I watched the launch this morning. Falcon 9 took off with out a problem, and the Dragon capsule is safely in orbit.
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If you become a monster to put down a monster you've still got a monster running around at the end of the day and have as such not really solved the whole monster problem at all. 

[Cobalt Greywalker]

The word is given, Mr. Scott.

[robkelk]

A shot of the launch itself:


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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Black Aeronaut]

Agh! I forgot about this...

Did anyone somehow manage to record it? I wanted to see it.

[Sweno]

http://blogs.discovermaga...n-on-its-way-to-the-iss/

video and other goodness about the launch
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Black Aeronaut]

Thank you. That was awesome. Shades of Rocket Girls, anyone?

[Logan Darklighter]

A bit of a late announcement, but the Dragon Capsule has successfully docked with the ISS.

Dragon cleared its first major hurdle of the day Friday when station flight engineer Don Petitt, the mission's grappler-in-chief, captured the Dragon capsule with the station's robotic arm as the craft free-floated some 30 feet from the docking port.

“Houston? Station. Looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail,” Dr. Petitt said as NASA's mission control confirmed that the arm's grip was solid.

Without skipping a beat, he deadpanned, “We're thinking this sim went really well. We're ready to turn it around and do it for real,” as applause and hugs broke out in two control rooms – NASA's and SpaceX's at the company's Hawthorne, Calif., headquarters.

Highlighted above to note the dry, nearly dessicated humor of the flight engineer. Heh.
 

[Bob Schroeck]

Yee-ha!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Black Aeronaut]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (^_^)V

[Jorlem]

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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber."  --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.

[Ankhani]

Jubiliations, and, as you earth people say, the hot dogs!
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[SkyeFire]

"New Car Smell."   So that's what Dragons smell like!   One of the great questions of history, put to rest.