Both SpaceX and NASA TV is streaming this in 720p.
720p for #%&*$# sake - is this 1991?
Where the hell is the 4K/HDR stream? This is SpaceX - not ESA after all. Rather pissed off at that - I want to watch it on my 4K TV in glorious resolution and we get something that was obsolete before Musk was born.
What's a little weather when the rocket flies so fast it will go through the weather clouds faster than Superman not long enough to be in them clouds to be affected.
What's a little weather when the rocket flies so fast it will go through the weather clouds faster than Superman not long enough to be in them clouds to be affected.
It's not the clouds per say, it is the rain and hail contained within the clouds that could do damage to the craft flying at the speeds it does.
From SpaceX Twitter: "Standing down from launch today due to unfavorable weather in the flight path"
I'm reading that as bad weather downrange so it was probably in case of an inflight abort. You don't want to come down in a thunderstorm / high seas if you have an inflight abort a few hundred miles downrange.
That makes sense. But in the Star Wars and Star Trek movies you see the Falcon and the Tie Fighters and the X-Wings and the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 to NCC-1701D fly through anything. They need to put Deflector Shields instead of some heat absorbing rubber tiles on that SpaceX craft. Deflector shields will let the ship survive anything.
Yes, it is totally worth it. It’s history baby. Yeah.
Think about this :
It was only 66 years from the Wright brothers first powered flight to the first landing on the moon. That is startling when you think of it. So much progress in just 66 years.
Then, it has been 48 years since the last lunar landing. That is a long pause. 48 years.
It was only 66 years from the Wright brothers first powered flight to the first landing on the moon. That is startling when you think of it. So much progress in just 66 years.
And all happened within my grandfathers', born in 1895, memory. Even my father, born 1924, could remember the first time he ever saw an airplane (as well as the first time he drank a Coke). Not many people can say that.
Both SpaceX and NASA TV is streaming this in 720p.
720p for #%&*$# sake - is this 1991?
Where the hell is the 4K/HDR stream? This is SpaceX - not ESA after all. Rather pissed off at that - I want to watch it on my 4K TV in glorious resolution and we get something that was obsolete before Musk was born.
You young whippersnappers are spoiled. I watched the Apollo 11 moonwalk on a 13" black and white TV.
19 hours to ISS. How far is the ISS? SpaceX seem to do everything tsimpler and smoother than NASA. Look at the control room. A few rows of tables, a few tech at each table, and that's it. Not crowded and full of consoles like a NASA control room.
19 hours to ISS. How far is the ISS? SpaceX seem to do everything tsimpler and smoother than NASA. Look at the control room. A few rows of tables, a few tech at each table, and that's it. Not crowded and full of consoles like a NASA control room.
I'm sure an orbital rendezvous is much more complicated than simple distance.
Went outside tonight with my 10 year old son and watched as the ISS flew over our house, followed shortly after by a small rapidly moving star- the Crew Dragon capsule carrying Bob and Doug. So very cool to be able to witness the pursuit of the space station taking place right over our home!
I'm also excited that a private company has this capability and that they can make it available to whoever they want.
With the style of the suits, the minimalist consoles and the fact they can float about in polo shirts and trousers...I'm having 2001 flashbacks. what a wonderful achievement and a privilege to watch the live stream. However, still some twats commenting that it is all faked.
floating in polo shirt and trousers was pretty common on the space shuttle also. The suits are for launch/reentry when they need to be extra protected.
With the style of the suits, the minimalist consoles and the fact they can float about in polo shirts and trousers...I'm having 2001 flashbacks. what a wonderful achievement and a privilege to watch the live stream. However, still some twats commenting that it is all faked.
I'm imagining a 'When Worlds Collide' (1951) scenario. Sorry,you can't board our rocket to salvation,it's all fake,remember?
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
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.
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?
With everything that's happening on planet Earth: Coronavirus, civil unrests, etc., .
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.
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.
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.
I am amused seeing the SpaceX recovery boat. Looks kind of like a fishing trawler ready to pull in its shrimp nets. Especially since everything else SpaceX has done is so cutting edge and fashionable.
Long process to open the hatch. Gus Grissom would have had it off much quicker.
Interesting to see the man with the clipboard doing the checklist for everything they did. Like a pilots checklist.
Also I was pleasantly surprised at the size of the recovery crew around the capsule. No bigwigs horning in on things. Just the people necessary to get it done and a photographer. Very unlike the government run recoveries. Very controlled and purposeful.
2. I was under the impression the SpaceX Dragon was reusable and expected the landing was back on the drone ship like this
Yes it is reusable, it will now be refurbished for relaunch next year. They dropped the 'solid' landing infavour of 'soft' splash down some time ago...
Gus Grissom didn't blow the hatch. It was a mechanical failure. What the movie "The Right Stuff" did to Gus was a travesty and it should not be repeated here for laughs.
I don't know who Gus Grissom is. When I read the name Gus Grissom above, I was thinking of the Astronaut Tom Hanks played in Apollo 13. I WIKI The Right Stuff. I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)#Historical_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Accident
Why are we making fun of someone who died in a tragic accident?
Well, I thought it was funny. Dark humour is the best kind, and things on the internet aren't meant to be taken seriously.
Anyway, am I the only one who thought they were stalling for time with that air monitoring theatre? Seems like they timed it so the hatch opened at the top of the hour for maximum media coverage or something. Also Musk needed to get from LA to Houston join in the homecoming.
Can't begrudge them the media attention after a seemingly flawless mission though.
Now looking forward to the Starship 150m hop, possibly later today...
It was interesting to watch and note how different it was from the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo recoveries. You could really tell that the evolution was not being funded by a bottomless pit of taxpayer money, but rather by a contracted amount of it. It's especially amusing that SpaceX got it done before Boeing, even though SpaceX was awarded less money for their contract. Hopefully, Boeing gets their challenges conquered soon.
I don't know who Gus Grissom is. When I read the name Gus Grissom above, I was thinking of the Astronaut Tom Hanks played in Apollo 13. I WIKI The Right Stuff. I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)#Historical_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Accident
Why are we making fun of someone who died in a tragic accident?
Why don't you Google these things BEFORE revealing your ignorance of historical people/places/things?
I don't know who Gus Grissom is. When I read the name Gus Grissom above, I was thinking of the Astronaut Tom Hanks played in Apollo 13. I WIKI The Right Stuff. I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)#Historical_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Accident
Why are we making fun of someone who died in a tragic accident?
It was a reference to an earlier mission, in Liberty Bell 7 (Second sub-orbital Mercury flight). After splash-down, the hatch was blown off pre-maturely. There has been much subsequent debate as to whether Grissom panicked and blew it manually, or if it was a malfunction. The debate / speculation started way before the movie was made.
Grissom was an American hero, and continued doing good work in the space program. The Apollo 1 fire was a tragedy that cost us good men, and provided some hard won lessons. It's been decades since then, and the fire doesn't erase the history (and attendant debates) that came before it.
Gus Grissom was a great man and an accomplished aviator and astronaut.
As for the hatch blowing. Grissom got ahead of his checklist. He armed the hatch and removed the safety pins before the scheduled time. Did he purposely trigger it ? I don’t think so. But having it armed too early I think something in the rolling capsule hit or snagged it and blew it before it was scheduled. He also didn’t follow procedures on closing his oxygen inlet which allowed his suit to take on water. That was compounded by his not inflating his neck collar which also sealed the suit. His suit filled and nearly dragged him under. This rattled him and he got into the rescue sling backwards. When he was winched into the recovery helicopter he grabbed and put on a life vest.
I’m not belittling him. He was doing a very daring thing in being an early astronaut. I am just relating the event.
I don't know who Gus Grissom is. When I read the name Gus Grissom above, I was thinking of the Astronaut Tom Hanks played in Apollo 13. I WIKI The Right Stuff. I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)#Historical_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Accident
Why are we making fun of someone who died in a tragic accident?
Why don't you Google these things BEFORE revealing your ignorance of historical people/places/things?
Says the man who join others to make fun of the astronaut who died in a tragic accident.
I don't know who Gus Grissom is. When I read the name Gus Grissom above, I was thinking of the Astronaut Tom Hanks played in Apollo 13. I WIKI The Right Stuff. I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_Stuff_(film)#Historical_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Accident
Why are we making fun of someone who died in a tragic accident?
Why don't you Google these things BEFORE revealing your ignorance of historical people/places/things?
Says the man who join others to make fun of the astronaut who died in a tragic accident.
Another hint: Why don't you read for comprehension before responding, I was the one DEFENDING Gus Grissom.
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