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Topic: SpaceX Dragon COTS Demo-1 top secret cargo
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-09-2010 01:06 PM
   
SpaceX release SpaceX Reveal's Dragon's "Secret" PayloadBefore the successful launch, voyage, and recovery of SpaceX's Dragon Spacecraft, the first time in history a commercial company has recovered a spacecraft from orbit, reporters were buzzing with news of a "secret" payload, stowed on board. It was a payload so secret, SpaceXers made it Top Secret (think Val Kilmer 1984, not official US Government).  So what was inside the mystery package? Their tribute to Monty Python. A wheel of cheese.  Read more: Say cheese! SpaceX all smiles over historic spacecraft recovery |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 12-09-2010 01:10 PM
Ha! Should have done spam!  |
Rocket Chris
Member Posts: 342
From:
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 12-09-2010 01:44 PM
...a fondue of that cheese... yamyam!  |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-09-2010 01:56 PM
Whey to go! First cheese to Gouda space. I Cheddar tear of joy.SpaceX have proven it is possible to Gruyère own space program. Even though it was a brie-f flight, I would call that a Feta compli. They've put the lactic back into galactic. Although Edam near lost it in the ocean. |
AFGAS
Member Posts: 89
From: Merritt Island, FL
Registered: Feb 2008
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posted 12-09-2010 01:56 PM
Notify Wallace and Grommet! |
Leon Ford
Member Posts: 309
From: Shreveport, LA, United States
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-09-2010 02:11 PM
Blessed are the Cheesemakers. |
E2M Lem Man
Member Posts: 846
From: Los Angeles CA. USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 12-09-2010 05:39 PM
quote:
Originally posted by FFrench:
First cheese to Gouda space.
Francis, you are wrong. One of the first astronauts was Gouda Cooper! |
E2M Lem Man
Member Posts: 846
From: Los Angeles CA. USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 12-09-2010 05:40 PM
...at least it wasn't a dead parrot! |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 12-10-2010 12:23 AM
Kind of glad it's a private company that pulled this off. Imagine the uproar if NASA had done the same... |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 12-10-2010 08:12 AM
Who cut the cheese  |
Steve Procter
Member Posts: 1031
From: Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Registered: Oct 2000
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posted 12-10-2010 09:03 AM
Are they crackers...?Is that Cow Laughing? I think it took considerable 'Kraft' to build this rocket... Will it come to the UK to be displayed in the National Space Centre in (Red) Leicester? We've gotta get 'gouda' this place... I write all my own material and am available on some (well all), dates!!  |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 12-10-2010 10:25 AM
quote:
Originally posted by cspg:
Kind of glad it's a private company that pulled this off. Imagine the uproar if NASA had done the same...
Well, it was the idea of the Big Cheese at SpaceX...Or did some closeout worker say to another when hiding the cargo, "Cheese it! The cops are coming!" |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
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posted 12-10-2010 10:29 AM
I am glad they didn't bleu it. |
jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 12-10-2010 10:32 AM
Gotta love the label on the top of the canister, great "fromage" to "Top Secret!". |
David Carey
Member Posts: 782
From:
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 12-10-2010 02:55 PM
A Muenster accomplishment! |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3398
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 12-10-2010 03:00 PM
Ricotta stop all of these unfeta'd puns. Even though there's stil-tons left, it's starting to grate. We have Robert's parmesan to post caerphilly. (Groan) |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 12-11-2010 07:04 AM
What is going to happen to the now infamous wheel of cheese? Is it destined for the party table, a museum, the freezer or will it wind up on someones door step on Christmas morning in a Fed-Ex or UPS container? |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 12-11-2010 09:13 PM
Half inch cheese cubes encased in acrylic displays maybe? |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 12-12-2010 06:32 AM
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Originally posted by Rob Joyner:
Half inch cheese cubes encased in acrylic displays maybe?
I think if they had sent a fruit cake no Lucite would have been needed. They could have cut it into one half inch squares and have it mounted, guarantee it would last forever and no one will ever eat it. These folks have a great sense of humor; I like their program even more now! |
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