The John Batchelor Show

VIDEO: Space X Teases Falcon Heavy Launch

January 29, 2015

Via Bob Zimmerman's Behindtheblack.com

The competition heats up: SpaceX has released a short animation showing the launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket, with all three of its Falcon 9 first stage boosters returning to the launchpad and landing vertically.

I have posted this animation below the fold. When NASA makes these kinds of animations, which the agency has been doing for more than forty years now, I pay little heed. They don’t signal any achievement, merely the dreams of the engineers there. In the case of SpaceX, however, I pay close attention, because the company’s track record is that they are likely to make this animation quite real in a surprisingly short period of time.

http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-...