A catch phrase will go here soon.

Public @Chartbeat for LAUNCH website: http://jc.is/launchchartbeat

12/13/2010

The public @Chartbeat for LAUNCH website can be found here:

http://jc.is/launchchartbeat

Mahalo screen tests

12/13/2010
We’re screen testing our experts, and crowd-sourcing the feedback on YouTube!

TRAILER: Revenge of the Electric Car (cc – @teslamotors )

12/11/2010
 

SMACK TALK! @davidsacks & @benioff twitter exchange! :-)

12/11/2010

Love it baby!!!

Breaking: most shocking Wikileak ever was just released!

12/10/2010
Saturday, 12 December 1998, 16:13
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 LONDON 000368
NOFORN
SIPDIS
DOE FOR GPERSON, CHAYLOCK
EO 12958 DECL: 12/12/2018
TAGS EPET, ENRG, PGOV, RS”>RS, NI
SUBJECT: ENGLAND: RELIABILITY AND LONGEVITY OF UK-US RELATIONSHIP CONFIRMED
REF: A. LONDON 365 B. LONDON 366
Classified By: Consul General Robbie Honerkamp for reasons 1.4 (B) and (D )

1. (S/NF) Summary: We’re no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I.
A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of. You wouldn’t get this from any other guy.
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling. Gotta make you understand.

2. (C/NF) Chorus: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

3. (S/NF) We’ve known each other for so long Your heart’s been aching but You’re too shy to say it
Inside we both know what’s been going on We know the game and we’re gonna play it
And if you ask me how I’m feeling Don’t tell me you’re too blind to see

4. (C/NF) Chorus: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

5. (C/NF) Chorus: Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

6. (C/NF) Background Singers: (Ooh, give you up) (Ooh, give you up) (Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give
(Give you up) (Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up)

7. (S/NF) We’ve know each other for so long Your heart’s been aching but You’re too shy to say it
Inside we both know what’s been going on We know the game and we’re gonna play it
I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling Gotta make you understand

8. (C/NF) Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

9. (C/NF) Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.

10. (C/NF) Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you.
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you. ASTLEY

Thanks to social media folks at Bosch or tassimo for sending me a machine!

12/9/2010
Or whoever sent this!

BREAKING: SpaceX Reveal’s Dragon’s “Secret” Payload

12/9/2010
 
Top Secret payload, bolted to the floor of the Dragon spacecraft. Photo Credit: Chris Thompson
 
So what was inside the mystery package?  Their tribute to Monty Python.
 
A wheel of cheese.
 
Top Secret payload revealed.  Photo Credit: Chris Thompson, SpaceX
 
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Christmas in LA

12/9/2010

. @spaceX has done it again! Orbit with the Falcon9 Dragon!!!

12/8/2010
I'm so proud of my friends at SpaceX. 

America is BACK, and Elon Musk is leading the charge with SpaceX and Tesla. So proud to have him as an investor, advisor and most of all as a friend.

best j
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: SpaceX <emily@spacex.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:26 AM
Subject: TODAY: SpaceX to Make First Launch Attempt for COTS Demo 1
To: jason@calacanis.com

 
 
 
TODAY: SpaceX to Make First Launch Attempt for COTS Demo 1

Hawthorne, CA – Today SpaceX released the following information on today’s launch day activities for the first SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon demonstration launch for NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program.

SpaceX will make its first launch attempt on TODAY, December 8th from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window extends from 9:03 AM to 12:20 PM. EST/ 6:03 AM to 9:20 AM PST.  We are now counting down for a 9:06 AM EST attempt.

SpaceX has discovered the root cause of the two small cracks in the aft end of the 2nd stage engine nozzle extension.  A GN2 vent line caused fluttering of the the thinnest portion of the nozzle extension, creating the cracks.  SpaceX engineers repaired the extension by trimming off the end where the cracks are located and corrected the root cause by diffusing the vent.

SpaceX plans to launch its Dragon spacecraft into low-Earth orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket.  The Dragon capsule is expected to orbit the Earth at speeds greater than 17,000 miles per hour, reenter the Earth’s atmosphere, and land in the Pacific Ocean roughly 3 1/2 hours later.  This will be the first attempt by a commercial company to recover a spacecraft reentering from low-Earth orbit.  It is a feat performed by only 6 nations or government agencies: the United States, Russia, China, Japan, India, and the European Space Agency.

It is also the first flight under NASA’s COTS program to develop commercial supply services to the International Space Station.  After the Space Shuttle retires, SpaceX will fly at least 12 missions to carry cargo to and from the International Space Station as part of the Commercial Resupply Services contract for NASA.  The Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft were designed to one day carry astronauts; both the COTS and CRS missions will yield valuable flight experience toward this goal. 
 

Webcast

The COTS Demo 1 launch will be webcast at www.spacex.com.
 
The webcast will begin approximately 45 minutes prior to the opening of the daily launch window, at 8:15 a.m. EST / 5:15 a.m. PST / 13:15 UTC.  During the webcast, SpaceX hosts will provide information specific to the flight, an overview of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft and commentary on the launch and flight sequences.
 
Launch Day Viewing for Media

U.S. media wishing to attend the launch day viewing must be credentialed through NASA following the instructions in the NASA advisory below.  On launch day, the NASA News Center at the KSC press site will open at 6 a.m.  For launch viewing, reporters and photographers will be taken to from the KSC press site to the NASA Causeway between stations C & D by bus.  The bus will leave the press site for NASA Causeway at L-1 hour and will return to the press site once Falcon 9/Dragon are no longer visible.

 
Post-Mission News Conference
 
A post mission press conference will be held one to two hours after splashdown of the Dragon spacecraft at the press site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  Participants include:
  • Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX President
  • Phil McAlister, NASA Commercial Space Flight Development Acting Director
  • Alan Lindenmoyer, NASA Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Manager 
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Funny TMZ knockoff by the Mahalo @Videogames team.

12/5/2010

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