We’ll find out later that it was the guy in engineering that took the last of the coffee without making another pot. He’s allowed back in the office just as soon as he figures out HOW to get there.
Every time it tumbles you see the Earth getting smaller.
I don’t believe it is scheduled to leave orbit for another few hours.
I really wish they had put an actuator in the arm of the suit - so Starman could salute us.
I can’t stop watching the Starman stream; every few seconds the shot changes to something equally album-cover-worthy!
It really is just the perfect combination of surreal and relaxing.
Perhaps something should burst out of his chest?
Space ain’t all sugar and spice ya know.
If it had been up to me, instead of launching a car into solar orbit, I would send a main battle tank into orbit around Earth. This would serve two purposes. First, it would demonstrate the power of the rocket, which can carry 140,000 pounds to LEO. A modern Western tank is around 120-130K lbs and older ones, or Russian ones are a bit lighter. Second, and more importantly, it would confuse the hell out of future historians.
Ok, if that happened at some random time tomorrow, that would be fucking hilarious.
Watching the feed, I was thinking it would be cool, in an odd sort of way, to see it get hit with a small piece of space debris in real time. Just a bolt or that missing space glove smacking it at 18,000 miles an hour and going straight through it. Sudden Hole.
Tbf, in a million years time a red convertible orbiting the sun, with an empty spacesuit in the driver’s seat, a towel in the glove compartment, and the words “Don’t Panic” on the display are going to be plenty enough confusing to future historians.
I wouldn’t trust a Space X driver…that dudes hands are NOT in the 2 oclock and 10 o clock positions…for that matter you can’t even see his other hand…though if I had that view you might not see my second hand either…
Well, he is obviously a refuge from the great LA traffic jam of 2162…
‘10 and 2’ is obsolete and dangerous due to air bags. Bang Two broken arms.
I’m sorry but watching 2 boosters land simultaneously is beyond science fiction to me. That was spectacular.
I was kinda hoping for Peter Pan artwork on the fender and the right turn signal left on.
Confirmed—the center core was lost. It ran out of propellant and only one of the three engines ignited. I’ve also heard that OCISLY was damaged.
Despite this it was a fine showing for SpaceX today. I can’t wait to see the next one!
You one percenters with your fancy airbags.
Watching the post-launch conference now.
The center core actually ran out of igniter, not propellant–so instead of a 3-engine landing, it ended up being a 1-engine “landing”. Apparently hit the water at 300 mph, but close enough to the barge that it took out two engines.
A little surprised at this–almost sounds dumb enough to be a lost-in-translation thing, like the group responsible for filling the igniter reservoirs didn’t know it was going to be a three-engine landing burn and only put in the extra for the center. I guess we’ll find out eventually.
Incidentally, they use a chemical mixture called TEA/TEB (triethylaluminium /triethylboron), which is pyrophoric–it ignites on exposure to air (or liquid oxygen). It burns green, so you can often spot a green flash at liftoff and at the start of the landing burns.
Confirmed that the spacesuit was a real production model (and you could “literally jump in a vacuum chamber and be fine”), but that it wasn’t instrumented with sensors or anything. Had a mannequin inside.
Sure, until we find out that one of Elon’s enemies went missing about the same time. 
Jeff Bezos hasn’t tweeted today. Coincidence?