http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3-VRG-WmdY
Beat me to it :D Was just going to post it but was on the phone with John
SpaceX launch ends in failure, rocket eruptsCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and the first-of-its-kind docking port to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA, still reeling from previous failed shipments.
The accident occurred about 2 1/2 minutes into the flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Pieces could be seen falling into the Atlantic. More than 5,200 pounds of space station cargo were on board, including the first docking port designed for future commercial crew capsules.
"The vehicle has broken up," announced NASA commentator George Diller. He said it was not clear how the disaster occurred or even when the rocket actually failed. Data stopped flowing from the rocket around 2 minutes and 19 seconds, he said. No astronauts were on board.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/06/28/spacex-launch-ends-in-failure-rocket-erupts/
Thought-Transference :P
(http://www.americaspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/CRS-7-debris-cloud-600x450.jpg)
NASA live about SpaceX
http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
HoloLens....
NASA will send HoloLens to space this weekend
Astronauts will use Microsoft's AR device to communicate with Earth
By Sean O'Kane on June 25, 2015
NASA has been involved with Microsoft's HoloLens since before it was announced, and it's about to take the relationship one step further. This weekend, NASA will send a pair of HoloLens devices to the International Space Station as part of the SpaceX resupply mission.
Astronauts aboard the ISS will use HoloLens in a few ways. There is a "Remote Expert Mode," where ground operators can use Skype to see what a crew member sees in real time. The operator can then make notes and draw right in the astronaut's field of view. There's also a "Procedure Mode," which lays animated holographic drawings over whatever the crew member is interacting with. To make all this happen, NASA and Microsoft co-developed a program called Sidekick.
Sidekick won't immediately become a part of the day-to-day routine on the ISS. Astronauts will use these first two devices to test the hardware and software, and a second set of HoloLens glasses will be delivered "on a future mission," according to NASA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1IS8Kbzxos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1IS8Kbzxos
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/25/8846619/nasa-hololens-space-microsoft
A NOTE on SpaceX
SpaceX started out on Kwajalien Atoll... this is significant since Kwajalien Atoll is the US ARMY launch facility that is mostly secret and little known. SpaceX now uses NASA's Canaveral lunch site and Vandenburg
So are they truly 'private'? Maybe only in funding :P Need to check into them
Jack Arneson, Pegasus's military researcher, recently passed away. He came to us because of the Kwajalien Conspiracy (The Aquila Cargo Transport) At the same time Mark Nelson, (Dr X in the Lunar Orbiter McMoon expose) had also served on Kwajalien at that time. He mentions that everytinme there was a launch a glowing object was observing. Dr X was alos the fellow who had kept those Lunar Orbiter tapes safe when he was at JPL and they were being tossed
So it is interesting how this all ties together again
SpaceX launch facilities
SpaceX currently uses two leased orbital launch sites—Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 4 in California—and has one suborbital facility in use, the SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility in Texas, with an additional high-altitude suborbital test facility under construction in New Mexico.
In addition, SpaceX has leased a second orbital launch facility in Florida to accommodate both Falcon Heavy flights beginning in 2015 and passenger-carrying space missions in 2016 or 2017. SpaceX is also building a commercial-only launch facility at a site near Brownsville, Texas where they expect the first flight no earlier than 2016.
SpaceX has indicated that they see a niche for each of the four orbital facilities currently in use or under construction, and that they have sufficient launch business to fill each pad, particularly so by the end of the decade if SpaceX business remains strong.
SpaceX originally intended to launch its first launch vehicle, the Falcon 1, from a leased facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base. A launch pad (Space Launch Complex–Three West, or SLC-3W) was modified by SpaceX to support the Falcon 1, and the Falcon 1 was placed on the pad in 2005. Problems arose when SpaceX was unable to obtain sufficient launch window availability because the pad would overfly other Air Force pads that were frequently left occupied for weeks or months at a time, thus severely restricting SpaceX launches. The launch pad was never used for a vehicle that left the pad, although it was used for a number of ground tests.
SpaceX proceeded to then build a launch facility in the northern Pacific Ocean at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, on Omelek Island, a part of the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands. SpaceX began launching Falcon 1 rockets from Omelek in 2006. Falcon 1 Flight 4 was the first successful privately funded, liquid-propelled launch vehicle to achieve orbit, and was launched from Omelek Island on 28 September 2008. followed by another Falcon 1 launch on 13 July 2009, placing RazakSAT into orbit
SpaceX had at one point in the past planned to upgrade the Omelek launch site for use by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, but has since cancelled its plans to do so, to the point of disassembling the entire installation. In December 2010, the SpaceX launch manifest listed Omelek (Kwajalein) as a potential site for several Falcon 9 launches, the first planned for as early as 2012. The Falcon 9 Overview document also offered Kwajalein as a launch option in 2010. Since then, the FAA Environmental Impact Report of May 2014 lists this site as non-operational and returned to its original state, to no longer be used, "Five Falcon 1 launches occurred at Omelek Island, Kwajalein Atoll. After these launches of the Falcon 1, the site was no longer needed and SpaceX closed the site and returned the property to pre-launch conditions"
All Falcon 1 launches have taken place at this location, five launches from 2006 to 2009. SpaceX abandoned Omelek when Falcon 1 was retired, due to the expense of logistics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_launch_facilities
I guess I will need to do a page or two on them
i suspect there has been a hand from ula -- lockheed & boeing are very abused by Musk w/ his blow upon RD180 8) :-X