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Watch SpaceX Deliver Four Astronauts to the International Space Station (space.com) 41

For SpaceX's 11th crewed mission — its eighth flight for NASA — "A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts will arrive at the International Space Station early Sunday," reports Space.com, "and you can watch it all live online in a free livestream." The Crew Dragon capsule Endurance is scheduled to reach the International Space Station at 8:39 a.m. EDT (1239 GMT), where it will dock itself to a space-facing port on the outpost's U.S.-built Harmony module.

The docking will mark the end of a nearly 30-hour journey for the capsule's four-person crew, which launched in the wee hours of Saturday from NASA's Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida... "SpaceX, thanks for the ride, it was awesome," Crew-7 commander Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA said after the crew reached orbit. "Go Crew-7, awesome ride." SpaceX's Crew-7 mission for NASA is ferrying Moghbeli to the ISS with a truly international crew: pilot Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency; and mission specialists Konstantin Borisov of Russia's Roscosmos agency and Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The quartet is the first all-international crew, with members from four different agencies and countries, to fly on the same Dragon capsule...

The Crew-7 astronauts are beginning a six-month expedition to the space station and will relieve the four astronauts of NASA's Crew-6 mission, who are due to return shortly after Moghbeli and her crew arrive.

SpaceX has created a "follow Dragon" web page with graphics tracking the capsule's progress to the Space Station...
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Watch SpaceX Deliver Four Astronauts to the International Space Station

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  • Just imagine if Musk had as much input and issued his commands on SpaceX as he does Twitter.

  • That his rockets donâ(TM)t work, and he isnâ(TM)t launching any. I donâ(TM)t get why they push lies that are so easy to disprove.

    • by Firethorn ( 177587 ) on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:28PM (#63801492) Homepage Journal

      I remember when the first starship exploded and people were questioning the continued existence of SpaceX. "How can they recover from this failure!" they cried. Even as the NASA and SpaceX engineers were celebrating in the control room over their successful test.

      Success for that mission was literally defined as "makes it off the launch pad before exploding."

      Not building a deflector system of some sort and depending upon the bare concrete was a mistake, but it was an informed decision. Their simulations said that the concrete would withstand one launch, and it'd delay things if they waited to install it(they had at least some of the pieces already). If the rocket had blown up on the launch pad(a real risk), it'd probably have destroyed the extra expense of the deflector along with everything else.

      With the last test, we see that they've incorporated all sorts of changes from lessons learned on the first one. Fixed the launch pad, changed the separation system(radically, so I won't say "fixed" yet), the engines are a work in progress, and they presumably fixed the computer stuff to be a bit more robust as well.

      • Beyond the "we live to sell you narratives as entertainment" news media industry, reality of rocket science is that you have to blow up a lot of rockets to figure out what doesn't work before you get to what does work.

        Because we don't yet know enough about the subject to have the reliability. And we live in a world where most things are of high reliability because the period of blowing up ICEs, fuel depos, grain silos and so on are largely behind us. We understand how those things work. Shit like Beirut's e

    • I don't know why anyone watches TV news at all. There's not a single ounce of quality left in it. Media consolidation and deregulation turned it into tabloid fiction.
  • That Musk, he is so crude, he puts me and all Democrats in a bad mood. He always should be booed, at him it's not rude. A dude who should be pooed, and most definitely sued, not wooed.

    • Don't pretend to be a Democrat. Talking like that, I'll bet you call it the "Democrat Party." You people are so fucking transparent, it's amazing you can get through automatic doors.
  • SpaceX deliver Elon Musk into space, with no space suit.

    • Upset that Elon can deliver to the Space Station at half-price? Angry that NASA's "rocket" has never flown and likely never will? Puzzled over how many Teslas are on the road? Now, what precisely have YOU done except criticize the successes of others?

  • ...if the DOJ wins their suit against SpaceX that SpaceX jacks their rates up 10000% to NASA to send anything up.
  • Let's have it... I want detailed data and video. Nothing like having your bowels forcefully evacuated by a suction device, in a room with your friends.

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