spacex doing a super secret launch today

[onethatcares]

this afternoon around 1:30 or so.
It was on the baynews front page. You don't get much secreter then that.

Something to do with reconisence

[orangecrush]

1. ...

[Abnredleg]

2. They always publish the launch

Since they have to close the airspace and it’s kind of hard to hide. What is secret is the payload.

[DFW]

3. If it doesn't crash or explode, I'm sure they will sing its success from the highest hilltops

If it crashes, explodes, or lands on a shopping mall in Rahway, NJ, news will probably be less forthcoming.

[Abnredleg]

5. The Falcon 9 has a 99.7% success rate

Out of 450 launches. It’s an excellent rocket.

[maxrandb]

7. Yes, and the Nazi's made great cars in 1938

Maybe if Space X shareholders were to remove their South African Nazi majority owner, people wouldn't associate them with the Nazis.

Oh well, it's just me, but I don't consider ANYTHING the Nazis have their hands in as "excellent".

Space X could learn what I have known for my entire life; "no one can take your integrity and reputation from you, those are things you can only give away yourself".

[RJ-MacReady]

8. Thank NASA

its their technology. In fact dpaceX has developed zilch on their own. Its all NASA tech they took.

[Abnredleg]

14. This is patently false

Yes, NASA research is the foundation of almost all aerospace companies, but SpaceX has done lots of innovation. Boosters that can land and be reused is something they perfected.

[BannonsLiver]

10. Fanboy vibes.

[Abnredleg]

13. I'm a space fan

Have been since I was a kid. Not a fan of Musk.

[MissB]

12. .

So true

[Emile]

4. How much will cost us tax payers? But, social security

is supposedly going broke

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

6. The payload is secret

The launch isn't. Launches are never secret. FAA has to clear airspace for it and every country in the world with early warning satellites are notified ahead of time. Its probably carrying another spy satellite for the government.

[2naSalit]

9. More Big Brother...

Surveillance machines. I hope they fail.

[kacekwl]

11. What government is

the question.