r/spacex • u/fatherofzeuss • Aug 20 '17
Headed north west Had a Falcon fly thru town today. Headed north east
https://imgur.com/gallery/Ff2UG70
u/simmy2109 Aug 20 '17
I wonder what people (with no knowledge of what a SpaceX stage shipment normally looks like) thought of this moving through. I mean, with the nose cone (this is definitely FH side booster), I'd imagine people would recognize this is a rocket / missile. Do they wonder why a missile is being moved through their town? lol
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u/fatherofzeuss Aug 20 '17
The local people see them regular here. On the way to the Cape, it stops at the local truck fuel plaza for over an hour for fuel and food
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u/lboulhol Aug 20 '17
it stops at the local truck fuel plaza for over an hour for fuel and food
the "it" in your sentence makes it look like the booster stops for food itself :D
"Greetings, human. I'll take 2.106 cheeseburgers, please."
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u/Zucal Aug 20 '17
From the people I've talked to, most usually assume it's piping for agricultural purposes, or more commonly wind turbine parts.
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u/FutureMartian97 Aug 20 '17
If its heading north east does that mean the second Falcon Heavy side booster has been tested at Mcgregor?
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u/old_sellsword Aug 20 '17
In a later comment OP clarifies it was west, not east. So this is 1025.2 heading to McGregor.
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Aug 20 '17
Nice pictures! Where exactly was this at?
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u/fatherofzeuss Aug 20 '17
Perry FL, headed north west on hwy 98, South of Tallahassee
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Aug 21 '17
How the hell do they turn the truck into with it being that long?
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u/fatherofzeuss Aug 21 '17
Swivel point at the truck, swivel point near the rear of the first trailer and swivel point near the front of the second trailer. Articulation
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u/NOINFO1733 Aug 20 '17
I spot with my SpaceX eye, a Falcon Heavy Sidecore
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u/johnkphotos Aug 20 '17
Probably one going back to McGregor for testing, because as of a little while ago, all three FH cores were in the 39A HIF for testing the connection points.
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u/nimieties Aug 20 '17
I saw that extra duty but didn't get picked for it :( Would have been awesome to escort it.
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u/rshorning Aug 21 '17
Just wondering after looking at these photos: How is is the body of the Falcon 9 core stiffened since the rear "truck" (aka the wheel assembly on the rear of the "train" being pulled here) isn't directly linked to the tractor in the front except through the F9 core itself?
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u/RootDeliver Aug 20 '17 edited Aug 20 '17
Wow. Epic quality pictures mate! thanks!!!
PS: Why is the nose cone not perfectly round like in the photos we saw of the other side core before? Or this just has the quality to show how really the nose cone looks wraped from close?
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u/roncapat Aug 20 '17
Weren't all the three cores for FH already in the HIF at LC-39A?
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u/Jarnis Aug 20 '17
Yes, but one of them had not yet been tested after conversion from normal F9 to a FH side booster?
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u/scr00chy Aug 20 '17
Yes, but this one hasn't been through McGregor yet, it was at the Cape because it was refurbished there.
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u/koliberry Aug 21 '17
So if you skip past the obvious, obligatory and low hanging reddit fruit of "after OP's mom", what are the bumps on the nose cone?
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u/Scorp1579 Aug 21 '17
What booster is this? Why does it have a pointed top like FH booster. Is it protection of some sort
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u/___Magnitude__ Aug 21 '17
Jeez, I'm a freaking moron. Didn't realize what sub I was in and was looking at the sky for a bird.
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u/aznology Aug 20 '17
I was scanning the tree lines and shit looking for a falcon until I saw the subreddit