Well, the past week has been pretty eventful; we sold our 650-square-foot condo and have bought a 1400-square-foot townhouse in Richmond, BC. And we’re moving in just over 3 weeks, so the craziness is like to continue.<\/p>\n
I’ve even been too busy to note last Saturday’s SpaceX<\/a> launch and subsequent failure of their 3rd Falcon 1 rocket. Turns out that the new engine they were testing burned a little longer than they expected after shutdown, and the first stage bumped into the second stage after they separated. Which is disappointing, but an easy fix — just separate a bit later after main engine cutoff.<\/p>\n There’s even a video<\/a>, which is pretty darn cool.<\/p>\n SpaceX say that they might launch another rocket in a month or so. I’m a huge space geek, so of course I’m hoping that the fourth time will be the charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, the past week has been pretty eventful; we sold our 650-square-foot condo and have bought a 1400-square-foot townhouse in Richmond, BC. And we’re moving in just over 3 weeks, so the craziness is like to continue. I’ve even been too busy to note last Saturday’s SpaceX launch and subsequent failure of their 3rd Falcon … Continue reading “Rocket Staging”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[186,106,87,21],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-space","tag-journal","tag-moving","tag-spaceflight","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}