I'm imagining a 'When Worlds Collide' (1951) scenario. Sorry,you can't board our rocket to salvation,it's all fake,remember?

Watch them live docking with the ISS at about 9:15 am today



Don't forget you can try your hand at docking here:

https://SimHQ.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/4520823/spacex-iss-docking-simulator#Post4520823

Nice docking.

Space X gives me hope for the future. Mr. Musk is eccentric ( but most truly great men have been ) but he is pushing scientific and engineering boundaries which IMO is GOOD for mankind

I never heard how will the capsule land on water ,,land or a controlled landing like the rocket did ??

Parachute on water. Recovery by SpaceX ship.

If you miss the docking, it starts at about 40 minutes. Then to see the astronauts going on the iSS, it starts at about 3 hr 50 min. After they docked, they sat in the capsule for over 3 hours while ISS check things and connect things. Not like the movies, you dock, you open the door, you step out and come and go freely like it's Starbucks.

Thanks F4 don't think Iv'e ever seen it mentioned ,,,Yeah it did drag a bit after the hooked up

I watched the whole thing live and they were asked to collect the trash in the capsule before the hatches could be open to let them onto the ISS.

I watched about 4 hours of it on Twitch. It was all very fascinating.

I was getting an 'Observation' vibe from the various camera feeds and someone commented that the game devs based their space station on the ISS.

Anyone play that game?

With everything that's happening on planet Earth: Coronavirus, civil unrests, etc., if I was one of those 5 Astronauts on the ISS, I wouldn't want to come back. How long can a human being last in space zero gravity?

Observation? Don't think I ever heard of it.

Human civilization has been through a LOT worse as recently as the 20th century and it managed to get through it and thrive. Stop being such an alarmist. It's getting REALLY old.

And SpaceX has finally won Capture the Flag:

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/nasas-dragon-riders-capture-flag-nine-years-left-space-station/

I went to the NASA live feed yesterday for the first time in a week and they are still up there for maybe 3-4 months.

I assumed they were just flying up there to see if the SpaceX spacecraft works properly, dock with the ISS and then come back after a few days. But it's safer up there right now than being on Earth.

Don't be ridiculous, that has nothing to do with the length of mission.

This is huge. Previously NASA had insisted that all crewed missions would use new Falcon 9 launch vehicles and new Dragon 2 spacecraft.


SpaceX wins NASA approval to launch astronauts on reused rockets and spacecraft


In a wholly unexpected turn of events, a modification to SpaceX’s ~$3.1 billion NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) contract was spotted on June 3rd. Without leaving much room for interpretation, the contract tweak states that SpaceX is now “[allowed to reuse] the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Crew Dragon spacecraft beginning with” its second operational astronaut launch, known as Post Certification Mission-2 (PCM-2) or Crew-2. Given the spectacular, hiccup-free success of SpaceX’s inaugural astronaut launch and International Space Station (ISS) arrival just 3-4 days prior, it’s safe to say that NASA is extremely happy with the results of the mission.

Watching the NASA live feed YouTube channel and they are showing videos of past STS missions where they assembled parts of the ISS. It's incredible how a few astronauts from each mission were able to assemble the ISS in space.

WIKI has a good page about it too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_of_the_International_Space_Station

Tour the ISS



I want this 864 pieces set

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/international-space-station-21321