SpaceX

[Tank]

12 hours ago, gotbeer said:

With no crew aboard, spacecraft Starliner lands without a hitch

i'm glad it landed safely. this was the right way to bring it home. 

[gotbeer]

No one will probably be awake. But a bit over 2 hours till Polaris dawn liftoff.

 

[Jay]

Hatch is open for EVA. Pretty amazing.

[gotbeer]

3 hours ago, Jay said:

Hatch is open for EVA. Pretty amazing.

Nothing spectacular about the space walk.  More of making sure the suits were functioning within norms.  But still, when you consider that Blue Origin gets all excited about 2 minutes of weightlessness.  And SpaceX has regular billionaires opening the hatch and going outside into space.  Really SpaceX is rewriting what you can do in space, and more importantly, what you need in space.  Airlock being one of them.

[Tank]

i wish i could've been astronaut. i imagine space travel would be about as exciting as it gets. 

[Jay]

13 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Nothing spectacular about the space walk.  More of making sure the suits were functioning within norms.  But still, when you consider that Blue Origin gets all excited about 2 minutes of weightlessness.  And SpaceX has regular billionaires opening the hatch and going outside into space.  Really SpaceX is rewriting what you can do in space, and more importantly, what you need in space.  Airlock being one of them.

Airlock is a pretty obvious need. Crew Dragon wasn't really designed for this but they were able to demo the space suits.

If we're nitpicking why did they need a four-person crew for this mission? Seems like they could have gotten it done with 2.

Edited Friday at 04:03 AM by Jay

[gotbeer]

11 hours ago, Jay said:

Airlock is a pretty obvious need. Crew Dragon wasn't really designed for this but they were able to demo the space suits.

If we're nitpicking why did they need a four-person crew for this mission? Seems like they could have gotten it done with 2.

It definitely would have been more roomy. That looks like a claustrophobic nightmare.

[Blarg]

11 hours ago, gotbeer said:

It definitely would have been more roomy. That looks like a claustrophobic nightmare.

Have you ever see how small the Gemini and Apollo capsules were? 

[Jay]

Extremely cool to watch the splashdown and recovery of the Dragon capsule. Seems counterintuitive that they would do it in darkness but they executed it flawlessly.

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[Tank]

thanks for posting the video, GB. that was interesting to watch.