how did "of course i still love you" get its name

Of Course I Still Love You You’re probably asking: what the hell kind of names are those? See, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is a pretty big fan of science fiction. One need look no further than his adoration for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for proof. He literally named his company’s future Mars-bound spacecraft Heart of Gold for this reason.

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What is of course I Still Love You?

Of Course I Still Love You carries the first first stage that successfully landed on a drone ship ( Falcon 9 Full Thrust, SpaceX CRS-8, 8 April 2016).

What happens to of course I Still Love you when it lands?

Of Course I Still Love You is unmanned during all landings. Once the landing is complete, Octagrabber will be deployed to secure the booster and SpaceX technicians will dis-engage the thrusters and prepare the droneship for the return journey. The tugboat will then tow OCISLY back to port.

What does I Still Love you and just read the instructions mean?

Then lo and behold Of course, I still love you, and Just Read the Instructions are General Contact Unit ship names. These are taken from Iain M Banks’s Culture series novel The Player of Games. Though Player of the games is the second book in the series you can read it as a standalone.

What happened to the of course I Still Love you droneship?

"Of Course I Still Love You droneship and MS1 have departed from Freeport and are en-route to the Panama Canal!" (Tweet) – via Twitter. ^ CRS-6 First Stage Landing, retrieved 14 March 2021.

Where did of course I still love you get its name?

Musk's companies, with the exception of SpaceX, recruits the best engineers world-wide. What are you going to name it? SpaceX's founder and CEO Elon Musk named the company's drone ships. The names of OCISLY & JRTI, come from Ian M Banks Culture book series, 'The Player of Games', the second book in the series.

What is of course I still love you?

Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) is an autonomous spaceport droneship (ASDS) that is operated out of the Port of Long Beach, California. Of Course I Still Love You was previously based in Florida from 2015 to 2021.

Who named SpaceX ships?

SpaceX founder Elon Musk took it upon himself to name each and every one of the famous SpaceX drone ships that carry the rocket boosters.

What is the name of SpaceX new drone ship?

A Shortfall of GravitasCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX's newest drone ship, "A Shortfall of Gravitas" (ASOG) arrived in port Tuesday (Aug. 31) with its first catch secured to its deck. The booster, dubbed B1061 by SpaceX, launched just two days prior, carrying a cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA.

Why is SpaceX called Dragon?

SpaceX's CEO, Elon Musk, named the spacecraft after the 1963 song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul and Mary, reportedly as a response to critics who considered his spaceflight projects impossible.

What is an Octagrabber?

The Falcon 9 Securing Robot, universally known as Octagrabber, is the name given to two robots that operate on SpaceX's droneships, Of Course I Still Love You, Just Read the Instructions and A Shortfall of Gravitas. The Octagrabber robots have four arms and tracks.

How much is Elon Musk worth?

218.1 billion USD (2022)Elon Musk / Net worth

What is the name of Elon musks space ship?

StarshipSince 2010, SpaceX has been flying Falcon 9, a rocket with a reusable booster that has become one of the most dominant launch vehicles in global spaceflight. Starship is the next generation, designed as a gigantic and fully reusable rocket system that could cost less and fly more often.

What ship recovered SpaceX?

The recovery ships "Bob" and "Doug" are named after the first crew SpaceX launched for NASA. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The two newest members of SpaceX's recovery fleet sailed into Port Canaveral this month.

Who named SpaceX vehicles?

Nomenclature. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, has stated that the Falcon 1, 9, and Heavy are named after the Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars film series.

Where is SpaceX landing?

Cape Canaveral Space Force StationLanding Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2, also known as LZ-1 and LZ-2 respectively, are landing facilities on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for recovering components of SpaceX's VTVL reusable launch vehicles.

How far offshore is the SpaceX drone ship?

about 400 milesThis booster is again equipped with 4 landing legs and 4 grid fins. Following stage separation, SpaceX will try to soft land the first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” drone ship positioned about 400 miles (650 km) off shore of Florida's east coast in the Atlantic Ocean.

Falcon rockets

Okay, so outwardly this one seems pretty tame. Falcons are majestic birds, after all. But wait, there’s more. “Falcon” comes from the Millennium Falcon of Star Wars fame.

Merlin rocket engines

If you’re thinking of King Arthur’s wizard buddy, you’re a little off. While this one sounds like it’s straight out of a 13-year-old's D&D game, it’s actually named for another bird.

The Dragon capsule

With another name that sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a fantasy novel, the Dragon capsule and Dragon 2 conjure images of fire-breathing beasts. According to Musk, though, the name is firmly grounded in reality.

What is the name of the series where aliens are exiled from a world whose sun went nova

Zenna Henderson’s “The People” series – alien exiles from a world whose sun went nova living secretly on Earth. Space 1999 – blowing the entire moon out of orbit and into interstellar space is probably an extinction level event for those left behind. and of course Battlestar Galactica in all incarnations.

Who wrote Space War Blues?

Novel: Space War Blues, by Richard A. Lupoff. The Pan-Semitic Coalition (or something like that; dismissively referred to as the “Jewrabs” by N’Alabamans) has complete control of the Earth and everyone else has been relocated to other worlds like New Alabama, New Haiti, and so on.

Who wrote the new America series?

Anderson of course returned to Rustum with his “New America” stories that first appeared in Roger Elwood’s Continuum anthologies. (Perhaps Elwood’s most interesting project — four volumes each featuring one installment of a connected series — though in the end not really that successful.)

Who is the star in Dogsbody?

Favorite This. In Diana Wynne Jones’ “Dogsbody” the star Sirius (or rather the creature inhabiting it) is accused of murder, and is exiled to Earth to recover the protagonist planet& destroying murder weapon. As a complication, he’s reborn as well, the title. Andre Norton’s future history is full of exiles.