Notes From All Over -- The Saturday Lockdown Edition -- Part 2 -- Nothing About The Bakken -- May 30, 2020

SpaceX launch. Elon Musk.

• ignition
• lift-off
• lit Roman candle
• T+1:00 minute: all systems go; system super-sonic
• throttling up to full power
• 2.3 g's
• T+2:00 minutes
• throttling down first stage; main engine cut-off
• stage separation; second stage ignited
• into orbit
• T+8:00 minutes: second engine cut-off
• first stage returning to ocean for retrieval for re-use 
• T+12 minutes: "in space"; in orbit; officially en route to the ISS

President Trump on-scene. No one in presidential viewing stand is wearing a mask. The president was there for the Wednesday launch also when the mission was scrubbed due to weather.

Over at Twitter, Elon Musk tweets that the booster rocket successfully landed on the retrieval drone, #51 of 52 such landings. Elon Musk tweets a video of the 51 successful landings from various vantage points. 

I had a devil of a time buying this when it was originally released. It was constantly out of stock. Finally, for a brief moment it was available. I ordered it on-line but somewhere along the line the order failed.

I immediately called Lego's help desk; individual very, very helpful. He immediately "saved" my purchase and the model was shipped. Interestingly, the individual that helped me get this model said he had been unable to order it due to limited supplies, and like me, visited the Lego home page frequently, hoping to catch it when it was available. He was unaware that it was temporarily available and said as soon as his shift was over he was headed home to order "his."

He was not allowed to order products while on company computers.

I don't remember the price I paid. I believe it was $119. Oh, yes, there is it, $119. It is now going for $248 over at Amazon. Item #21309, released June, 2017, only four years ago, and already retired. It's a very, very impressive model.